When Wall Street Met Main Street

The Quest for an Investors' Democracy

Julia C. Ott

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$20.00 • £16.95 • €18.00

ISBN 9780674417021

Publication Date: 09/01/2014

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352 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Introduction: The Quest for an Investors’ Democracy
1. The Problem with Financial Securities
2. The “Free and Open Market” Responds
3. “Be a Stockholder in Victory!”
4. Mobilizing the Financial Nation
5. The Postwar Struggle for the Financial Nation
6. Swords into Shares
7. The Corporate Quest for Shareholder Democracy
8. Finance Joins in the Quest for Shareholder Democracy
9. “The People’s Market”
Epilogue: The Enduring Quest
Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Awards & Accolades

2013 Vincent P. DeSantis Prize, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America, by T. H. Breen, from Harvard University Press

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