The Financier, a Novel (Paperback)

from KatherineGregg

The Financier, the first book in a trilogy by Theodore Dreiser, chronicles the life the Frank Cowperwood. The story is set in late 19th century Philadelphia. Cowperwood is a smart, ruthless businessman who cares for nothing other than making money. When he finds a more desirable and younger woman...

from patito-de-hule

This book is the first of a trilogy, The Financier, Titan, and The Stoic written by Theodore Dreiser. The first two were written late in the progressive era (prior to WWI), and the last was published in 1947. Frank A. Cowperwood, a character based on Charles T. Yerkes, grew up in Philadelphia, an...

from browner56

An interesting trend in literary fiction is for some really good writers to base the plots of their novels on events surrounding crises or other calamities in the financial markets. From Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities and Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis to the more recent A Week in December by ...

from corinneblackmer

Frank Cowperwood, impatient to leave school as a boy, learns all he needs to know on the street and from his banker father. Soon he is trading for profit and moving up from one firm to another. In Philadelphia, he begins to skim from the city as a broker and is only discovered by the disaster of ...

from rsubber

It's just amazing that Dreiser (1871-1945) wrote this gritty novel in 1912, before anyone even thought of derivatives, credit default swaps, sub-prime "liar loan" mortgages and no-fault (for bankers and brokers, that is) national financial meltdowns. Frank Cowperwood is the ethically-challenged "...