Bet-A-Million-Gates, The Story of a Plunger, 1932 SOLD
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Warshow, Robert Irving
New York: Greenberg Publisher, Inc., 1932.
First Edition. Hardcover, 187 pp. Cover and binding title faded otherwise in very good condition. Additional pictures on request.
FOREWARD: John W. Gates entered active business life in the midst of the panic of 1873. The railroads had finally spanned the continent. An era of untrammeled speculation, nurtured by the optimistic psychology of a never-ending prosperity, was coming to the inevitable end, Jay Cooke, the Morgan of his day, had just gone down with the Northern Pacific. Daniel Drew, the "Big Bear", once the most powerful man on the Street, was bankrupt at eight, Commodore Vanderbilt had practically retired, Jim Fiske was dead. A cycle had come to an end, and a dynasty of leaders had fallen. Out of the West was to come the typical American "hustler", the "human steam-engine and mental dynamo", to shock the conservative bankers....he was the undependable Gates.
New York: Greenberg Publisher, Inc., 1932.
First Edition. Hardcover, 187 pp. Cover and binding title faded otherwise in very good condition. Additional pictures on request.
FOREWARD: John W. Gates entered active business life in the midst of the panic of 1873. The railroads had finally spanned the continent. An era of untrammeled speculation, nurtured by the optimistic psychology of a never-ending prosperity, was coming to the inevitable end, Jay Cooke, the Morgan of his day, had just gone down with the Northern Pacific. Daniel Drew, the "Big Bear", once the most powerful man on the Street, was bankrupt at eight, Commodore Vanderbilt had practically retired, Jim Fiske was dead. A cycle had come to an end, and a dynasty of leaders had fallen. Out of the West was to come the typical American "hustler", the "human steam-engine and mental dynamo", to shock the conservative bankers....he was the undependable Gates.
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