

A Disposition to Be Rich
How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States
Author: Geoffrey C. Ward
Narrator: Robertson Dean
Unabridged: 14 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 05/01/2012
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, History, Us History
Synopsis
Drawing from thousands of never-before-examined family documents, Geoffrey C. Ward traces his great-grandfather's rapid rise to riches and fame, and his even more dizzying fall from grace. There are mistresses and mansions along the way; fast horses, crooked bankers, and corrupt New York officials; courtroom confrontations and six years in Sing Sing; and Ferdinand's desperate scheme to kidnap his own son to get his hands on the estate his late wife had left the boy. A Disposition to Be Rich is a great story about a classic American con artist, told with boundless charm and dry wit by one of our finest historians.