The Gold Ring: Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, and Black Friday, 1869 by Kenneth D. Ackerman

The Gold Ring: Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, and Black Friday, 1869

Kenneth D. Ackerman

370 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction economics history informative medium-paced
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In September 1869, two young speculators, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, Jr., undertook perhaps the most audacious financial operation in American history - the cornering of the national gold supply. Fisk and Gould manipulated prices to the point that le...

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