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Frenzied Finance

by Thomas William Lawson

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  1. 1Dedication
  2. 2Saints, Sinners, and In-Betweens
  3. 3Foreword
  4. 4Part I
  5. 5Chapter II — The “System’s” Method of Finance and Management
  6. 6Chapter III — The Men in Power Behind the “System”
  7. 7Chapter IV — My Own Responsibility
  8. 8Chapter V — The Power of Dollars
  9. 9Chapter VI — Construction of “Standard Oil’s” “Dollar-Making” Mill
  10. 10Chapter VII — Juggling With Millions of the People’s Money
  11. 11Chapter VIII — “Standard Oil” Invests “Made Dollars” in Gas
  12. 12Chapter IX — A Votary of the “System”
  13. 13Chapter X — Addicks Comes to Boston
  14. 14Chapter XI — How Addicks Captured Boston Gas
  15. 15Chapter XII — Stock-Brokers Not All Bad
  16. 16Chapter XIII — The “System” Versus Westinghouse
  17. 17Chapter XIV — The Alliance With Addicks
  18. 18Chapter XV — The Great Bay State Gas Fight
  19. 19Chapter XVI — Peace Negotiations With Rogers
  20. 20Chapter XVII — A Memorable Conference
  21. 21Chapter XVIII — The Duplicity of Addicks
  22. 22Chapter XIX — Enter H. M. Whitney
  23. 23Chapter XX — An Awkward Attack of Appendicitis
  24. 24Chapter XXI — Bribing a Legislature
  25. 25Chapter XXII — Plundered of the Plunder
  26. 26Chapter XXIII — Two Gentlemen of Frenzied Finance
  27. 27Chapter XXIV — Buying a Bunch of States
  28. 28Chapter XXV — Athletics of Finance
  29. 29Chapter XXVI — The Circling of the Vultures
  30. 30Chapter XXVII — Court Corruption and Coin
  31. 31Chapter XXVIII — Peace at Last
  32. 32Part II
  33. 33Chapter II — The “System” and the Louisiana Lottery Compared
  34. 34Chapter III — The Fundamentals of Finance
  35. 35Chapter IV — The Magic “Jimmy”
  36. 36Chapter V — How the “System” Does Business
  37. 37Chapter VI — How Wall Street’s Manipulations Affect the Country
  38. 38Chapter VII — Economics of Copper
  39. 39Chapter VIII — My Plan for “Coppers”
  40. 40Chapter IX — Birth of “Coppers”
  41. 41Chapter X — Rogers Grasps “Coppers”
  42. 42Chapter XI — The Copper Campaign Opens
  43. 43Chapter XII — The Buncoing of the Stockholders of Utah
  44. 44Chapter XIII — The Trap in Finance
  45. 45Chapter XIV — Lawyer Untermyer Discovers the “Nigger”
  46. 46Chapter XV — Degrees in Crime
  47. 47Chapter XVI — Mr. Rogers Unmasks
  48. 48Chapter XVII — “Extract Every Dollar”
  49. 49Chapter XVIII — The Biters Bit
  50. 50Chapter XIX — The Despoiling of Leonard Lewisohn
  51. 51Chapter XX — The Christening of Amalgamated
  52. 52Chapter XXI — Fixing the Responsibility
  53. 53Chapter XXII — The Responsibility Fastened
  54. 54Chapter XXIII — The First Crime of Amalgamated
  55. 55Chapter XXIV — The Subscription Opens
  56. 56Chapter XXV — Dollar Hydrophobia
  57. 57Chapter XXVI — Deviltry Afoot
  58. 58Chapter XXVII — The Black Flag Hoisted
  59. 59Chapter XXVIII — The Bogus Subscription
  60. 60Chapter XXIX — The Aftermath
  61. 61Chapter XXX — The Morning After
  62. 62Chapter XXXI — I Walk the Plank
  63. 63Chapter XXXII — Perfecting the Double Cross
  64. 64Chapter XXXIII — A Retrospect and a Moral
  65. 65Lawson and His Critics
  66. 66II — The Enemies I Have Made
  67. 67III — Explanations

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