The Hellhound of Wall Street

by Perino, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780143120032
• ISBN10: 0143120034
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-27
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Summary

Perino recounts in riveting detail the 1933 hearings that put Wall Street on trial for the Great Crash. Never before in American history had so many financial titans been called to account before the public, and they had come within a few weeks of emerging unscathed.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Prelude	p. 9
The Well-Driller and Wall Street	p. 11
The Best Cross-Examiner in New York	p. 24
Sitting on the Lid	p. 45
A Short-Term job	p. 60
Sunshine Charlie	p. 71
A Mine of Information	p. 95
Junior	p. 112
Ten Days	p. 129
Day One: Unimpeachable Integrity	p. 131
Day Two: Morale	p. 158
Day Three: Manipulation	p. 177
Day Four: Legal Legerdemain	p. 192
Days Five and Six: Intermission	p. 212
Day Seven: South of the Border	p. 229
Day Eight: Shorn Lamb	p. 245
Day Nine: A Free and Open Market	p. 259
Day Ten: The End of an Era	p. 271
Epilogue	p. 280
Acknowledgments	p. 305
Notes	p. 309
Index	p. 333
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