The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market

This fascinating book shows how the New York securities market, with its promise of great wealth and its equally devastating disappointments, is a vital link in the history of American economic growth. Read more Review It is a story of people: their foibles and strengths, earnestness and avarice, triumphs and crash-and-burns.

-- Turnarounds and Workouts, November 15, 2000 Review by Gail Owens Hoelscher From the Publisher This is the story of Wall Street, the symbol of finance and capitalism in America. It is a drama peopled by such colorful figures as E.H.

Harriman and J.P.

Morgan among many others. The first history of the New York Stock Market, it traces the development of the institution from its beginnings in early America of the 18th century to 1965.