Henry Clews was a prominent New York banker and stockbroker whose career spanned the turbulent decades from the Civil War through the Gilded Age. His memoir, Fifty Years in Wall Street, is packed with first-hand accounts of the great financial panics, legendary speculators, and dramatic market episodes he witnessed over half a century at the centre of American finance.
Part memoir, part financial history, and part portrait gallery of Gilded Age capitalism, Clews’s account remains a fascinating primary source. Download this free EPUB for an insider’s view of how American finance came of age.