The Money Game in Old New York: Daniel Drew and His Times

By Clifford Browder

Book Overview

""""I got to be a millionaire afore I know'd it hardly,"""" remarked the Wall Street financier Daniel Drew (1797-1879). An uneducated farm boy from Putnam County, New York, he became in turn a successful cattle drover, a circus clown, tavern keeper, a shrewd Hudson River steamboat operator, and an unscrupulous speculator. As the colorful """"Uncle Daniel"""" of Wall Street-his whiskered face seamed with wrinkles and twinkling with steel-gray eyes-time and again he disrupted the financial markets with

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813151473
• ISBN13: 9780813151472
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher