Howard M. Wachtel, Street of Dreams--Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century.(book review)(Book Review)

HOWARD M. WACHTEL, Street of Dreams--Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century (London and Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2003. Pp.xv + 239; illus. H/back ISBN 0 7453 1925 4,19.99 [pound sterling).

Wall Street was so christened by the British in 1685 but the thoroughfare had originated some 40 years previously as a simple brushwood barrier in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. Its origins as a financial centre can be said to date from 1792 with the Buttonwood Agreement. Wachtel covers these early origins in chapter one, his next six chapters deal with Wall Street during the nineteenth century, and his final chapter essentially serves as an epilogue to bring us ...

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