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The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse (Reprint Edition) by Jane Kamensky Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-14-311490-5 / 0143114905 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-311490-1 / 9780143114901 The riveting story of the country's first banking scandal in the first decades of the American republic This enthralling historical narrative of the birth of speculative capitalism in America opens in the 1790s when financial pioneer-turned-confidence-man Andrew Dexter, Jr. created a pyramid scheme |