Publisher’s Note.
Foreword by Victor Niederhoffer.
To My Readers.
Chapter 1: My Debut in Wall Street.
Chapter 2: How to Make Money in Wall Street.
Chapter 3: Causes of Loss in Speculation.
Chapter 4: Wall Street During the War.
Chapter 5: My Part in Marketing the United States Civil War Loans.
Chapter 6: Secretary Chase and the Treasury.
Chapter 7: “Corners” and Their Effect on Values.
Chapter 8: The Commodore’s “Corners”.
Chapter 9: Drew and the Erie “Corners”
Chapter 10: Panics—Their Causes—How Far Preventable.
Chapter 11: Old Time Panics.
Chapter 12: The True Story of Black Friday Told for the First Time.
Chapter 13: Our Great American Panics from First to Last.
Chapter 14: Booms in Wall Street.
Chapter 15: Wall Street’s Wild Speculation, 1900–1904.
Chapter 16: The Ups and Downs of Wall Street.
Chapter 17: Grant’s Second Term.
Chapter 18: The Tweed Ring, and the Committee of Seventy.
Chapter 19: Daniel Drew.
Chapter 20: Interesting Episodes in Drew’s Life.
Chapter 21: William H. Vanderbilt.
Chapter 22: “Young Corneel”.
Chapter 23: Drew and Vanderbilt.
Chapter 24: Jay Gould.
Chapter 25: Keene’s Career.
Chapter 26: Villard and his Speculations.
Chapter 27: Ferdinand Ward.
Chapter 28: Henry N. Smith.
Chapter 29: Charles F. Woerishoffer.
Chapter 30: Why I Am an American.
Henry Clews was born in England in 1836 and emigrated to the United States in 1850. In 1859, he confounded the banking firm that later became Livermore, Clews, and Company, which was the second largest marketer of federal bonds during the Civil War. Later, Clews organized the Committee of Seventy, Which deposed the corrupt Tweed Ring in New York City. He also served as an economic consultant to President Ulysses Grant and wrote and lectured widely on diverse economic and political issues.
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