How Wall Street Created a Nation
Subtitle: J.P. Morgan, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Panama Canal
Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows
Published: June 14, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781568581965
Subjects: American history; American history: from c 1900 -; Wall Street (New York, N.Y.); Latin America - Central America; History; History - General History; United States - 20th Century; History: American; Central America; USA; Panama; Political History; Business & Economics / Banks & Banking; Finance; 20th century; Panama Canal (Panama)
First sentence: ON OCTOBER 2, 1908, AT 10:30 PM, the managing editor of Joseph Pulitzer's the World, Caleb Van Hamm, received an unexpected telephone call.
Description: "How Wall Street Created a Nation captures the swashbuckling early days of the century and the pernicious combination of financial gain and arrogant American intercontinental interference that built the Panama Canal. Ovidio Diaz Espino has pieced together the dark alliance between the bankrupt French Panama Canal Company and a secretive syndicate of Wall Street financiers to remap the world to line their pockets.".

"Bringing a unique combination of financial acumen, historical expertise, and national heritage, Diaz Espino uncovers evidence never before available to expose American imperialism in Central America."--BOOK JACKET.