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At twenty‑three, James Hazen Hyde inherits majority shares in the billion‑dollar Equitable Life Assurance Society, propelling him into the pinnacle of New York’s gilded‑age society by 1904. Five years later, on the night of a lavish ball in January 1905, Hyde headlines a scandal that spirals into a nationwide investigation of corporate malfeasance. The fallout draws front‑page attention, engages the era’s most prominent financiers and industrialists, and forces governmental oversight that reshapes American financial law. The book chronicles how ambition, greed, and the promise of wealth can ignite a moral and economic crisis, offering a stark portrait of a rapidly modernizing America.
First publish date: July 29, 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography
Authors: Patricia Beard
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