The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance

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Summary: Finally, Some Added Insight On Anthony Drexel
Review: "The Man Who Made Wall Street" is exceptionally written. Not an esoteric financial biography, yet deep enough for an intellectual discussion. Within the folds of 200 pages, you get a sense of the real person behind the financial machine. It is a brilliant biographical account of the leading figure in the financial world of the nineteenth century. There are many things you can take from this book. For me, it revealed that even 'starving' artists can find creative ways to make it and that there is often more to the person who chooses to remain behind the scenes.

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Summary: The Man Who Made J.P. Morgan
Review: A gripping good story about one of the titans of American history, who did his best to hide out. Author Rottenberg writes a grand supplement to things that one thinks that one knows, putting a whole new perspective on the history of corporate finance. This subject is anything but dull in the hands of an author who so skillfully depicts its high drama of riches and ruin. J.P. Morgan was a made man, not a self-made man, for his more famous role in a time closer to our own, and Drexel is the mentor who made him. Ron Chernow, the great Morgan and Rockefeller author, flew blind on this part of the story, for Rottenberg's material had to be dredged up over a 20-year period from remote sources, given Drexel's own destruction of records and correspondence. Required reading for anyone with an interest in the source of the general wealth that makes this country's political and economic freedoms possible.

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Summary: a good read
Review: As a great-great-great grandson of A.J. Drexel, it was a pleasure to read this book and to learn about my famous ancestors. It is crazy to think that many of his progeny have a difficult time balancing their checkbooks today. Before this book, my knowlege of the Drexels had been limited to family lore.

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Summary: Excellent book, a must have!!
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed reading Dan Rottenberg's informative book The Man Who Made Wall Street. The book contains all there is to know about the wise and amazingly successful nineteenth century financier Anthony Drexel and the profound role he played as a mentor to the young J. Pierpont Morgan. I especially enjoyed reading about financial systems and processes in nineteenth century America that author Rottenberg describes so well in his new book.

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Summary: The Man Who Made Wall Street
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed reading Dan Rottenberg's informative book The Man Who Made Wall Street. The book contains all there is to know about the wise and amazingly successful nineteenth century financier Anthony Drexel and the profound role he played as a mentor to the young J. Pierpont Morgan. I especially enjoyed reading about financial systems and processes in nineteenth century America that author Rottenberg describes so well in his new book.