How Wall Street created a nation : J.P. Morgan, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Panama Canal / Ovidio Diaz Espino.

By:

Diaz Espino, Ovidio

Publication details: New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, c 2001.Description: xviii, 254 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1568581963
9781568581965

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

History.

DDC classification:

972.87/503 21

LOC classification:

HE537 .D5 2001

Online resources:

Contents:

Major Characters -- Scandal -- Wall Street Faces Congress -- Colombia's Gamble -- Panamanian Cohorts -- Teddy's Conspiracy -- Seducing the Patriots -- Hamlet Revolution -- Birthday of Bribery -- Treachery -- The Rape of the Isthmus -- Who Got the Money? -- Epilogue: A Chapter of Dishonor.

Summary: How Wall Street created a nation illustrates how a combination of financial gain and arrogant American imperialism culminated in the building of the Panama Canal. Ovidio Diaz Espino has pieced together the tale of a dark alliance of greed between the bankrupt French Panama Canal Company and a secret syndicate of Wall Street financiers. With the full force of Teddy Roosevelt's Wall Street cabal and his gunboat diplomacy behind it, there was no stopping the canal project despite the objections of the American Congress and press. Espino brings a combination of financial acumen, historical expertise, and Latin American sensibility to this book.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-235) and index.

How Wall Street created a nation illustrates how a combination of financial gain and arrogant American imperialism culminated in the building of the Panama Canal. Ovidio Diaz Espino has pieced together the tale of a dark alliance of greed between the bankrupt French Panama Canal Company and a secret syndicate of Wall Street financiers. With the full force of Teddy Roosevelt's Wall Street cabal and his gunboat diplomacy behind it, there was no stopping the canal project despite the objections of the American Congress and press. Espino brings a combination of financial acumen, historical expertise, and Latin American sensibility to this book.

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