A Disposition to Be Rich: how a small town pastor's son ruined an American president, brought on a Wall Street crash, and made
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Ferdinand Ward was the Bernie Madoff of his generation-a supposed genius at making big money fast on Wall Street, who turned out to have been running a giant pyramid scheme that ultimately collapsed in one of the greatest financial scandals in American history. The son of a Protestant missionary and small-town pastor with secrets of his own to keep, Ward came to New York at twenty-one and in less than a decade, armed only with charm, energy, and a total lack of conscience, made himself the business partner of a former president of the United States and was widely hailed as the "Young Napoleon of Finance." In truth, he turned out to be a complete fraud, his entire life marked by dishonesty, cowardice, and contempt for anything but his own interests.Drawing from thousands of never-before-examined family documents, Geoffrey C. Ward traces his great-grandfather's rapid rise to riches and fame, and his even more dizzying fall from grace. There are mistresses and mansions along the way; fast horses, crooked bankers, and corrupt New York officials; courtroom confrontations and six years in Sing Sing; and Ferdinand's desperate scheme to kidnap his own son to get his hands on the estate his late wife had left the boy. A Disposition to Be Rich is a great story about a classic American con artist, told with boundless charm and dry wit by one of our finest historians.
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Ward, G. C., & Dean, R. (2012). A Disposition to Be Rich: how a small town pastor's son ruined an American president, brought on a Wall Street crash, and made. Unabridged. [United States], Tantor Media, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Ward, Geoffrey C. and Robertson, Dean. 2012. A Disposition to Be Rich: How a Small Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought On a Wall Street Crash, and Made. [United States], Tantor Media, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Ward, Geoffrey C. and Robertson, Dean, A Disposition to Be Rich: How a Small Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought On a Wall Street Crash, and Made. [United States], Tantor Media, Inc, 2012.
MLA Citation (style guide)Ward, Geoffrey C., and Robertson Dean. A Disposition to Be Rich: How a Small Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought On a Wall Street Crash, and Made. Unabridged. [United States], Tantor Media, Inc, 2012.
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