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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 Robertson Dean (narrator) and Geoffrey C. Ward
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Tantor Media Inc
Publication date May 1, 2012
Binding CD/Spoken Word
Edition Mp3 una
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781452655390
ISBN-10 1452655391
Dimensions 0.50 by 5 by 7.25 in.
Weight 0.26 lbs.
Original list price $29.99
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780679445302
 
from Alfred a Knopf Inc (May 1, 2012)
9780679445302 | details & prices | 418 pages | 8.25 × 5.75 × 1.50 in. | 1.92 lbs | List price $28.95
CD/Spoken Word
Book cover for 9781452605395 Book cover for 9781452635392 Book cover for 9781452655390
 
With Robertson Dean (other contributor) | Unabridged edition from Tantor Media Inc (May 1, 2012)
9781452635392 | details & prices | 1.00 × 6.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $90.99
This edition also contains 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
About: 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.
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With Robertson Dean (other contributor) | Mp3 una edition from Tantor Media Inc (May 1, 2012)
9781452655390 | details & prices | 5.00 × 7.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.26 lbs | List price $29.99
This edition also contains 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
About: 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.
With Robertson Dean (other contributor) | Unabridged edition from Tantor Media Inc (May 1, 2012)

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