Thomas William Lawson’s Frenzied Finance is one of the defining muckraking documents of the Progressive Era, a sensational insider’s account of stock manipulation, corporate conspiracy, and the ruthless financial practices of the Gilded Age copper market. Lawson, himself a Boston financier who made and lost fortunes on Wall Street, wrote with the credibility of an insider and the zeal of a convert, exposing the inner workings of Amalgamated Copper and the Standard Oil circle.
Serialized in Everybody’s Magazine beginning in 1904, the book caused a sensation and contributed to public pressure for financial regulation. Download this free EPUB for a vivid and still-gripping account of American capitalism at its most predatory.