Full name: Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons

Author: Edward J. Renehan Jr. Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Google Books Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780465068869 0465068863

Though reviled for more than a century as Wall Street's greatest villain, Jay Gould was in fact its most original creative genius. Gould was the robber baron's robber baron, the most astute financial and business strategist of his time and also the most widely hated. In Dark Genius of Wall Street, acclaimed biographer Edward J. Renehan, Jr., combines lively anecdotes with the rich social tapestry of the Gilded Age to paint the portrait of the most talented financial buccaneer of his generation-- and one of the inventors of modern business. Similar books: Daniel Boone by Augusta Stevenson Mellon by David Cannadine Morgan by Jean Strouse Carnegie by Peter Krass The Rockefellers by Peter Collier Seven Men by Eric Metaxas Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw Abigail Adams by Woody Holton The People's Tycoon by Steven Watts The Viceroy's Daughters by Anne de Courcy Mrs. Jordan's Profession by Claire Tomalin The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate Mistress to an Age by J. Christopher Herold Wellington by Christopher Hibbert Clover Adams by Natalie Dykstra The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Mobituaries by Mo Rocca Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy