Matthew Blacklock dates his line from Wild Week, the market campaign that made his fame, and he tells his own story with a boxer’s swagger. Self-made and shunned by old New York, he courts a society woman while waging a war of stock raids, lawsuits and newspaper exposure against the bankers who run Wall Street.
A muckraker’s novel of high finance from 1905 by the author of Susan Lenox, for readers of Dreiser and Norris. Download the free EPUB.