The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse
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ISBN: 0670018414 / Publisher: Viking Adult, January 2008
Profiles Andrew Dexter, Jr., a late-eighteenth-century financial pioneer-turned-confidence man, describing how he took advantage of suspicions about paper money and banks to promote a skyscraper building scheme that cost his investors millions of dollars.
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Profiles Andrew Dexter, Jr., as a late-eighteenth-century financial pioneer-turned-confidence man, describing how he took advantage of period suspicions about paper money and banks to promote a skyscraper building scheme that subsequently cost his investors millions of dollars.
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