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A Disposition to Be Rich : How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States by Ward, Geoffrey C. is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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A New York Times Notable Book The compelling behind-the-scenes story of the greatest swindler of the Gilded Age, whose villainy bankrupted Ulysses S. Grant and stunned the world of financetold by his great-grandson, award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward. Ferdinand Ward, the son of a Protestant missionary and small-town pastor, moved to New York at twenty-one and, in less than a decade, made himself the business partner of a former president and established himself as the Young Napoleon of Finance. In truth, he was running a massive pyramid scheme. Drawing from thousands of family documents never before examined, Geoffrey C. Ward traces his great-grandfather's rapid rise to riches and fame, and his even more dizzying fall from grace, in a narrative populated with mistresses, crooked bankers, corrupt New York officials, and a desperate kidnapping scheme. Here is a great story about a classic American con artist. Review Praise for Geoffrey C. Ward's A Disposition to Be Rich : Before Bernard Madoff, before Charles Ponzi, there was Ferdinand Ward. . . . Based on troves of letters and other memorabilia that Mr. Ward patiently amassed over many years, A Disposition to Be Rich
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- Author
- Ward, Geoffrey C.
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307959447
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Historical Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.66 / 5 (162 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14