false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255898719m/6429994.jpg 6429994 1 <B>The riveting story of the country’s first banking scandal in the first decades of the American republic</B><BR><BR> This enthralling historical narrative of the birth of speculative capitalism in America opens in the 1790s when financial pioneer-turned-confidence-man Andrew Dexter, Jr. created a pyramid scheme founded on real estate speculation and the greed of banks, who freely printed the paper money he needed to finance the then tallest building in the United States—the Exchange Coffee House, a 153-room, seven-story colossus in downtown Boston. The story of Dexter’s rise and eventual collapse offered an object lesson to the rising young nation, and presents striking parallels to the subprime mortgage meltdown and looming economic collapse of today. 6619442 30 12 2008 The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse total:3|5:2|4:0|3:1|2:0|1:0| 3 13 4 1 5 0 false false Mon Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 02:31:19 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 02:31:33 -0700 2009
Andrew Dexter Jr. is the villain of historian Jane Kamensky’s book on America’s first bank failure, which occurred in the early 1800s. He used worthless banknotes to finance construction of Boston’s Exchange Coffee House, at seven stories then A...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 11:42:01 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 11:42:07 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Nov 14 08:26:02 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 08:26:02 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 17:24:42 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 10:53:11 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6429994