Every Man a Speculator

“Big, boisterous, biting, and brilliant, this cultural history of Wall Street exposes Americans’ naughty ambition to worship both God and mammon.” —Walter A. McDougall, Pulitzer Prize–winning author

Americans have experienced a love-hate relationship with Wall Street for two hundred years. Long an object of suspicion, fear, and even revulsion, the Street eventually came to be seen as an alluring pa...