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Informal history of the development of America's financial market, including portraits of the persons who played for big stakes on the Street.

The Plungers and the Peacocks is an entertaining portrait of the personalities and corporate battles of Wall Street, the most famous financial district in the world. Using interviews with "old-timers" who lived through the events of the Street from the 1920s to the 40s and memoirs, and letters, the author has produced a sweeping narrative of "the games people played" in establishing America's financial center. Dana L. Thomas recounts a roller-coaster ride of excitement and intrigue, from the slave auctions of Captain Kidd to the battle by Robert Young to gain control of the New York Central Railroad.

Set in the romantic glow of 1920s Paris, a captivating novel of New York socialite and model Lee Miller, whose glamorous looks and joie de vivre caught the eye of Man Ray, one of the twentieth century’s defining photographers. 1929, Montparnasse. Model and woman about town Lee Miller moves to Paris determined to make herself known amidst the giddy circle of celebrated artists, authors, and photographers currently holding court in the city. She seeks out the charming, charismatic artist Man Ray to become his assistant but soon becomes much more than that: his model, his lover, his muse. Coming into her own more fully every day, Lee models, begins working on her own projects, and even stars in a film, provoking the jealousy of the older and possessive Man Ray. Drinking and carousing is the order of the day, but while hobnobbing with the likes of Picasso and Charlie Chaplin, she also falls in love with the art of photography and finds that her own vision can no longer come second to her mentor’s. The Woman in the Photograph is the richly drawn, tempestuous novel about a talented and fearless young woman caught up in one of the most fascinating times of the twentieth century.

King Solomon, Asoka, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Constantine, Charlemagne, Saladin, Kublai Khan, Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth, Montezuma, Ivan the Terrible, Catherine the Great, Louis XIV, Frederick the Great, Toussaint, L'ouverture, Napoleon, Queen Victoria, Kaiser Wilhelm, Stalin.

Cleopatra, Theodora, Joan of Arc, Mary-Queen of Scots, Queen Christina, Madame De Maintenon, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony, Frances E. Willard, Catherine Breshkovsky, Sarah Bernhardt, Isadora Duncan, Schumann-Heink, Jane Addams, Evangeline Booth, Helen Keller, Madam Chiang Kai-shek.