The Exchange Artist A Tale of. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.The Exchange Artist A Tale of

Profiles Andrew Dexter, Jr., as a late-eighteenth-century financial pioneer-turned-confidence man, describing how he took advantage of period suspicions about paper money and banks to promote a skyscraper building scheme that subsequently cost his investors millions of dollars.

Jane Kamensky is an associate professor of history at Brandeis University and the author of The Colonial Mosaic and Governing the Tongue. She has appeared on National Public Radio and on documentaries on PBSand the History Channel.