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04939aam a22005178i 4500 001 614C9444B05511E5976433DBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160101010029 008 150814s2015 nyu e 000 0beng 010 $a 2015029683 020 $a 1250054370 (hardback) 020 $a 9781250054371 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)898419048 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d GK8 $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCO $d LECLR $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HV6692.R53 $b T46 2015 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 084 $a BIO024000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Thornton, T. D., $e author. 245 10 $a My adventures with your money : $b George Graham Rice and the golden age of the con artist / $c by T.D. Thornton. 250 $a First U.S. edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b St. Martin's Press, $c 2015. 300 $a 298 pages, 8 unnumbered pages; $b illustrations: $c 24 cm. 520 $a "Today, we talk about Bernard Madoff, but in the early 20th century, they talked about George Graham Rice. Born Jacob Simon Herzig in 1870, he later changed his name - just as he would frequently change his swindles to make himself into one of the most colorfully successful villains in American history. T.D. Thornton now tells the story of Rice's life as it unfolded against the dark rise of American greed in the early 20th century. In the early 1900s, Rice made market-manipulation killings valued at billions in today's dollars by inventing fictitious boom towns in Death Valley and flagrantly exaggerating worthless mining claims throughout the West. As a shameless racetrack tipster, Rice cultivated a national following of 100,000 daily subscribers who paid for the privilege of being tipped to bet on hopeless nags.Vilified by securities regulators as the "Jackal of Wall Street," Rice sparked riots in Manhattan's financial district by perfecting the art of "bucket shop" trading with the sole purpose of bilking the public blind. He was capable of pulling off everything from street corner rip-offs for pocket change to elaborately scripted gambling hoaxes, all while being vilified by old-guard profiteers like J.P. Morgan and befriended by gangsters like Arnold Rothstein.In My Adventures With Your Money, T.D. Thornton has given us a real-life version of The Sting with one of America's most colorful con men at it's center"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Today, we talk about Bernard Madoff, but in the early 20th century, they talked about George Graham Rice. Born Jacob Simon Herzig in 1870, he later changed his name - just as he would frequently change his swindles to make himself into one of the most colorfully successful villians in American history. T.D. Thorton now tells the story of Rice's life as it unfolded against the dark rise of American greed in the early 20th century. In the early 1900s, Rice made market-manipulation killings valued at billions in today's dollars by inventing fictitious boom towns in Death Valley and flagrantly exaggerating worthless mining claims throughout the West. As a shameless racetrack tipster, Rice cultivated a national following of 100,000 daily subscribers who paid for the privilege of being tipped to bet on hopeless nags. Vilified by securities regulators as the "Jackal of Wall Street," Rice sparked riots in Manhattan's financial district by perfecting the art of "bucket shop" trading with the sole purpose of bilking the public blind. He was capable of pulling off everything from street corner rip-offs for pocket change to elaborately scripted gambling hoaxes, all while being vilified by old-guard profiteers like J.P. Morgan and befriended by gangsters like Arnold Rothstein. In My Adventures With Your Money, T.D. Thornton has given us a real-life version of The Sting with one of America's most colorful con men at it's center"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Rice, George Graham. 600 17 $a Rice, George Graham. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01658352 648 7 $a 1900 - 1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Swindlers and swindling $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Speculation $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Finance $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Finance. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00924349 650 7 $a Speculation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01129139 650 7 $a Swindlers and swindling. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01140414 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019013050.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006092454.0 952 $l TGPD826 $d 20160401021137.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=614C9444B05511E5976433DBDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search