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- Author:Kenneth D. Ackerman
- ISBN:1619450054
- ISBN13:978-1619450059
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- Publisher:Viral History Press LLC (December 6, 2011)
- Pages:370 pages
- Subcategory:Biography & History
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The Black Friday gold panic of September 24, 1869 was caused by a conspiracy between two investors, Jay Gould and his partner James Fisk, and Abel Corbin, a small time speculator who had married Virginia (Jennie) Grant, the younger sister of Presiden.
The Black Friday gold panic of September 24, 1869 was caused by a conspiracy between two investors, Jay Gould and his partner James Fisk, and Abel Corbin, a small time speculator who had married Virginia (Jennie) Grant, the younger sister of President Grant. They formed the Gold Ring to corner the gold market and force up the price of that metal on the New York Gold Exchange
Few books written 22 years ago are more timely than this book by Kenneth Ackerman which shows the wretched excesses of the unregulated stock market during they heyday of Messers Jay Gould and Jim Fisk
Few books written 22 years ago are more timely than this book by Kenneth Ackerman which shows the wretched excesses of the unregulated stock market during they heyday of Messers Jay Gould and Jim Fisk. Taking full advantage of the total lack of interest by the government in their doings (and this could be dissuaded on those rare occasions by a few well placed bribes to a few poor corrupt officials), the two scoundrels made their move to corner the market on gold.
Traces the audacious plot of Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, J. to corner the national gold supply in 1869
Traces the audacious plot of Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, J. to corner the national gold supply in 1869. Ackerman has put his tale together with a good assortment of sources (once the gold scheme blew up, lots of people had lots to say, some of it in court), and he manages to give us just enough background for understanding without wandering off down some side street. And he shows how the fallout included the beginnings of federal regulations to protect the US economy.
reputation as two of the most corrupt.
Admittedly I am a Kenneth Ackerman fan, I find his work on 19th Century America nearly faultless. I had recently finished Grant's biography which, if you have read it, contains little more than a topographical cover of his life and times and looked to this book to get a little more meat on one of the major controversy's of his presidency. This book delivers that and much more.
One thing leads to another and eventually they become "friends" with the brother-in-law of President Grant, and then use that friendship to try and manipulate the gold market.
They were Jay Gould, the ruthless self-promoter who came to be recognized as the most hated, if brilliant, man of his generation, and his partner, the extravagant showman Jim Fisk, whose insatiable indulgences finally led to his demise.
Author: Kenneth D. Ackerman
The Gold Ring: Jim Fisk, Jay Gould & Black Friday, 1869. The Gold Ring: Jim Fisk, Jay Gould & Black Friday, 1869. Author: Kenneth D. Ackerman. Publisher: Harper & Row. Year Printed: 1990. The scandal reached the very household of President Ulysses Grant, and only the intervention of their friend, Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall, saved Fisk and Gould from personal ruin.
39 Ackerman, Gold Ring, 14 – 30. 40 Grant ’ s Treasury Secretary, George Boutwell, referred to the Tenth National . 40 Grant ’ s Treasury Secretary, George Boutwell, referred to the Tenth National Bank as a brothel of certi- fied checks. 41 New York Herald, Jan. 12, 1870
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