who wrote frenzied finance
However, Lawson later broke with the financial backers of Amalgamated, and became an advocate for financial reform. Lawson was an independent candidate for the United States Senate in 1918. He finished a distant third with 5.26% of the vote. Lawson authored several books, the most famous of which was Frenzied Finance: the Crime of Amalgamated, his controversial account of the formation of the Amalgamated Copper Company. The Thomas W. Lawson, the only seven-masted schooner ever built, was named after him.