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Steve Fraser: WALL STREET A CULTURAL HISTORY Z1 [2005] hardback ZIRIS Pocket Rough Guide Paris isFraser brilliantly traces the imaginative history of Wall Street through novels and plays and political polemics, in the great prose of Twain and Wharton, Melville and James and a host of other writers, but also remembers the screams of rage of forgotten and marginalized protestors against the colossus that grew big speculating with other people's money. He weaves together the history of cut throat business deals with the delirious image of the place