How Wall Street created a nation
Subtitle: J.P. Morgan, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Panama Canal
By: Ovidio Diaz Espino
Publisher: MJF Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781567316155
Subjects: Finance; History; Securities industry; Finances; Histoire; Compagnie universelle du canal interocéanique de Panama
Description: How Wall Street created a nation illustrates how a combination of financial gain and arrogant American imperialism culminated in the building of the Panama Canal. Ovidio Diaz Espino has pieced together the tale of a dark alliance of greed between the bankrupt French Panama Canal Company and a secret syndicate of Wall Street financiers. With the full force of Teddy Roosevelt's Wall Street cabal and his gunboat diplomacy behind it, there was no stopping the canal project despite the objections of the American Congress and press. Espino brings a combination of financial acumen, historical expertise, and Latin American sensibility to this book.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-236) and index.