The Man Who Made Wall Street
Subtitle: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: August 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780812236262
Subjects: Biography: general; Economic history; c 1800 to c 1900; Business; Banks & Banking; United States; Business & Economics; Biography / Autobiography; Corporate & Business History - General; Business/Economics; USA; Biography & Autobiography / Business; Bankers; Finance; (Anthony Joseph),; 1826-1893; Biography; Capitalists and financiers; Drexel, Anthony J
First sentence: SIXTY-ONE YEARS BEFORE Pierpont Morgan's appointment with Anthony Drexel, an Austrian youth awaited a far more frightening nighttime rendezvous along a desolate bank of the Rhine.
Description: Anthony also was a partner and mentor to J.P. Morgan, installing the young man in a New York branch of Drexel, Morgan & Co. that helped establish Wall Street as the enduring center of American finance.