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9780345804693 | Vintage Books, April 23, 2013, cover price $16.00
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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9780679445302 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 2012, cover price $28.95
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9781452635392 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, May 1, 2012), cover price $90.99 | 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 this edition: 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.
9781452655390 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, May 1, 2012), cover price $29.99 | 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 this edition: 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.
9781452605395 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, May 1, 2012), cover price $44.99 | 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
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.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781452635392 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, May 1, 2012), cover price $90.99 | 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 this edition: 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.
9781452655390 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, May 1, 2012), cover price $29.99 | 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 this edition: 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.
9781452605395 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, May 1, 2012), cover price $44.99 | 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
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9780399161476 | Blue Rider Pr, June 14, 2016, cover price $28.00
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9781401310295 | Voice, September 29, 2009, cover price $19.99
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9781484752692 | Kingswell, January 5, 2016, cover price $14.99
9780516416595, titled "Television" | Reprint edition (Childrens Pr, February 1, 1988), cover price $3.95 | also contains Television | About this edition: Explains in simple terms how television works, the history of its invention, and how television programs are made.
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9781511327077 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, January 5, 2016), cover price $9.99
9781511327053 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, January 5, 2016), cover price $16.99
Product Description: The collapse of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme led to the instant evaporation of $65 billion of wealth. The effects of Madoff's brazen fraud were felt most closely in New York and Palm Beach but the story was, and continues to be, front page news across the country...read more
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9781511327060 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, January 5, 2016), cover price $52.97 | About this edition: The collapse of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme led to the instant evaporation of $65 billion of wealth.
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9780312618377 | St Martins Pr, August 25, 2009, cover price $23.99
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9781250054371 | St Martins Pr, November 3, 2015, cover price $28.99
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9780316198936 | 1 edition (Little Brown & Co, October 31, 2011), cover price $26.99
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9781611135251 | Unabridged edition (Hachette Audio, October 31, 2011), cover price $29.98
Hardcover:
9781455617869 | Pelican Pub Co Inc, February 15, 2013, cover price $26.00
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9780805091342 | Times Books, April 26, 2011, cover price $30.00
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9781250116581 | Griffin, February 7, 2017, cover price $16.99
9781250007438 | Reprint edition (Griffin, May 8, 2012), cover price $16.99
Product Description: Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history? These questions have fascinated people ever since the news broke about the respected New York financier who swindled his friends, relatives, and other investors out of $65 billion through a fraud that lasted for decades...read more
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9781452603292 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, June 27, 2011), cover price $49.99 | About this edition: Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history?
9781452653297 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, June 27, 2011), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history?
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9781452633299 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, June 27, 2011), cover price $95.99
Paperback:
9781849350211 | A K Pr Distribution, February 22, 2011, cover price $18.00
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