The Cotton Kings: Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans by Bruce E. Baker
The Cotton Kings: Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans
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Bruce E. Baker
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The Cotton Kings: Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans

Bruce E. Baker with Barbara Hahn

228 pages • first pub 2015 (view editions)

nonfiction business history informative medium-paced
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The Cotton Kings relates a colorful economic drama with striking parallels to contemporary American economic debates. At the turn of the twentieth century, dishonest cotton brokers used bad information to lower prices on the futures market, impove...

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