||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent!|By Neil J. Lehto|A great story focusing on an unbelieveable post-Revoluntionary War banking scam. Professor Kamensky writes with a style closer to Hunter Thompson than Doris Kearns Goodwin. Well-researched with plentiful notes.|10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| 4.5 stars-Speculation leads to widespread destructionFrom Publishers Weekly|Brandeis history professor Kamensky (The Colonial Mosaic) recounts the story of Andrew Dexter, a chronically overleveraged real estate developer who engineered profound shifts in the economy and skyline of turbulent early America.
The riveting story of the country's first banking scandal in the first decades of the American republic
This enthralling historical narrative of the birth of speculative capitalism in America opens in the 1790s when financial pioneer-turned-confidence-man Andrew Dexter, Jr. created a pyramid scheme founded on real estate speculation and the greed of banks, who freely printed the paper money he needed to finance the then tallest building in the United ...
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