The Money Game in Old New York: Daniel Drew and His Times

""""I got to be a millionaire afore I know'd it hardly,"""" remarked the Wall Street financier Daniel Drew (1797-1879). An uneducated farm boy from Putnam County, New York, he became in turn a successful cattle drover, a circus clown, tavern keeper, a shrewd Hudson River steamboat operator, and an unscrupulous speculator. As the colorful """"Uncle Daniel"""" of Wall Street-his whiskered face seamed with wrinkles and twinkling with steel-gray eyes-time and again he disrupted the financial markets with

Author: Clifford Browder
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780813151472

About the Author

Clifford Browder is a freelance editor, researcher, and writer in New York City.

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