The author of Eyewitness to America (named "the best Americana collection on my shelf" by Charles Kuralt) now focuses his you-are-there lens on lower Manhattan's legendary lane, vividly tracing Wall Street's explosive roller-coaster ride from the 1600s to the twenty-first century. Drawing on diaries, private letters, memoirs, and reportage, David Colbert's acclaimed Eyewitness books offer extraordinary first hand views of history's pivotal moments. Eyewitness to Wall Street's combination of remarkable perspectives and a subject of exceptional current interest results in the richest and most illuminating Eyewitness book yet. From our first IPO—the European fund-raising that launched America's colonization—through today's mass obssession with the Dow and Nasdaq, Eyewitness to Wall Street brims with accounts form people who saw it happen—poets and speculators,...
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