Bøger af Robert Shaplen

""Krueger: Genius and Swindler"" by Robert Shaplen is a biography of Ivar Kreuger, a Swedish businessman who became one of the most successful and infamous financial figures of the early 20th century. Kreuger was a master of finance and invented a system of international credit that allowed him to make fortunes in the 1920s and 1930s. He became known as the ""Match King"" for his control of the global match industry. However, Kreuger's empire was built on a foundation of fraud and deception, and when his schemes began to unravel in the early 1930s, it triggered a financial crisis that had global repercussions. The book details Kreuger's rise to power, his complex relationships with politicians and financiers, and his eventual downfall. Shaplen's account is a fascinating portrait of a man who was both a financial genius and a criminal mastermind.Story Of The Fabulous Financier Who Made Millions From Matches.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Story Of The Fabulous Financier Who Made Millions From Matches.

"On the night of July 3, 1870, Elizabeth Tilton confessed to her husband that she'd had an affair with their pastor, Henry Ward Beecher. This secret would soon transfix America, for Beecher was the most famous preacher of the day, founder of the most fashionable church in Brooklyn Heights, a presidential hopeful, an influential supporter of abolition, and a leader of the campaign for women's suffrage. When Beecher tried to silence the Tiltons, it was a whisper network of suffragists, notably Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who spread news of the affair, and it was the radical Victoria Woodhull-an outspoken proponent of 'free love'-who seized on it, as political dynamite, to blow up the myth of monogamy among the political elite. Her public accusations led to even more public trials, which shocked the country and divided the most progressive thinkers of the era. In 1953, the journalist Robert Shaplen revisited the Tilton-Beecher affair in a series of articles for the New Yorker, relying on 3,000 pages of contemporary accounts-court transcripts, love-letters, newspaper reports and illustrations, even political cartoons-to reanimate a scandal that shook the American reform movement and to expose a strand of America's cultural DNA that remains recognizable today--Page 2 of cover.