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Stree of Dreams: Boulevard of Broken Hearts by howard M.Wachtel－英文版2003
梦想大道：华尔街拓荒百年－中文版2005　（中信出版社）

http://www.amazon.com/Street-Dreams-Boulevard-Streets-Century/dp/0745319254
Review
"An elegantly crafted, smoothly-narrated history of Wall Street from its birth through its early adulthood." -- Richard Parker, Harvard University

"Wachtel tells us what [Wall Street] is, why it's important, how it affects us -- and how it always has." -- Jefferey Madrick, editor of 'Challenge Magazine' and columnist for 'The New York Times'

Product Description
This is the story of America's most famous street, Wall Street. No other place is so inextricably linked to the nation's history, the development of capitalism and the dramatic highs and lows of the financial markets. No other place has provoked such mythology, or has been the subject of so many dreams and illusions.
Howard Watchel's book provides a fascinating account of the origins of this famous street. Exploring its development through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, he charts its dramatic transformation, offering a window on the past that helps us understand how it became the center of world finance that we see today. Drawing on original archive research, and illustrated throughout with photographs, "Street of Dreams - Boulevard of Broken Hearts" is lively and informative narrative that reads not only as a popular history of one of America's great icons, but also as a critical assessment of Wall Street's role in the political, economic and cultural evolution of the country in the nineteenth century. Watchel looks at the key characters -- both better-known and lesser-known -- who shaped the course of Wall Street's early years; he traces its wider social history and its physical development and architecture; he focuses on the New York Stock Exchange as the most important institution on the street, including a wider history of banking houses and competing exchanges; he explores how Wall Street has influenced politics, and how it has been shaped by larger political forces around it; and he examines its love-hate relationship with two other streets -- Pennsylvania Avenue and Main Street -- the forces of government and the people of America.

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