Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (664 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250070562 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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"More Information Needed!" according to jacques w.. Good information but not enough about Jeremiah. Shane White worked with what was available to him but much more was needed to make this publication more than what it is, ordinary everyday stuff.Sorry but that how it came over to me.. Great read for anyone interested in business and anybody interested Wisd45 Great read for anyone interested in business and anybody interested in learning about the early struggles of doing business in America as an African American in a segregated environment.. Eric Hodge said Three Stars. Not first hand information, bio is kinda dry
After prodigious research, Professor Shane White rescues Jeremiah G. Hamilton.” Robin D. An engaging look at an extraordinary man.” Booklist“Hamilton's story is gripping; so, too, is his puzzling near disappearance from the historical record. A great read about a one-of-a-kind who nevertheless has much to tell us about Gotham and U.S. Kelley, author of THELONIOUS MONK: The Life and Times of an American Original (2009)“Pieces together the remarkable career of an antebellum Wall Street broker who was married to a white woman, ambitious, ruthless, successful, and black: in short, "a racist's nightmare come to life." Superb scholarship a
. SHANE WHITE is the Challis Professor of History and an Australian Professorial Fellow in the History Department at the University of Sydney specializing in African-American history. He lives in Sydney, Australia. He has authored or co-authored several books, including Playing the Numbers, and collaborated in the construction of the website Digital Harlem. Each project has won at least one important prize for excellence from institutions as varied as the Ame
He wheeled and dealed in the lily white business world, he married a white woman, he bought a mansion in rural New Jersey, he owned railroad stock on trains he was not legally allowed to ride, and generally set his white contemporaries teeth on edge when he wasn't just plain outsmarting them. The day after Vanderbilt's death on January 4, 1877, an almost full-page obituary on the front of the National Republican acknowledged that, in the context of his Wall Street share transactions, "There was only one man who ever fought the Commodore to the end, and that was Jeremiah Hamilton." What Vanderbilt's obituary failed to mention, perhaps as contemporaries already knew it well, was that Hamilton was African American. Hamilton was a well-known figure on Wall Street. In Prince of Darkness, a groundbreaking and vivid account, eminent historian Shane White reveals the larger than life story of a man who defied every convention of his time. Winner of the 2015 Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Best Book PrizeIn the middle decades of the nineteenth century Jeremiah G. Cornelius Vanderbilt, America's first tycoon, came to respect, grudgingly, his one-time opponent. An important contribution to