A Disposition to Be Rich: Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age

By Geoffrey C. Ward

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

Geoffrey C. Ward's account of his great-grandfather Ferdinand Ward, the Wall Street fraudster whose collapse in 1884 also ruined his partner Ulysses S. Grant.

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• Ryan Holiday: “Ferdinand Ward, the Bernie Madoff of his day, is there (great book on him here btw).”