My Lists
Featured Lists
The exchange artist
a tale of high-flying speculation and America's first banking collapse
By Kamensky, Jane
- ISBN
- 978-0-67001-841-3
- Publisher
- New York : Viking, 2008.
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Reviewed on January 15, 2008
Kamensky (history, Brandeis Univ.; Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England) weaves together the complicated tale surrounding Boston financial speculator Andrew Dexter Jr. (1779-1837). She shows Dexter as so rushed to make his fortune that he literally created his own money by printing promissory notes that he knew would be hard to redeem because they were drawn on distant banks that he controlled. With these notes, he financed...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
