"Boston <Mass.>" . . "Hommes d'affaires [+ adjectif de nationalité] États-Unis." . . "Businessmen / United States." . . "Boston (Mass.)" . . "HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century." . . "Hommes d'affaires États-Unis." . . . "The exchange artist a tale of high-flying speculation and america's first banking collapse"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . "This book recounts the story of Andrew Dexter, a chronically overleveraged real estate developer who engineered profound shifts in the economy and skyline of turbulent early America. Dexter built the seven-story Boston Exchange Coffee House, an extraordinarily ambitious project, and helped create a regional exchange system that made bank notes from distant rural locations acceptable in Boston. Unfortunately for his reputation, he is more often remembered as the man responsible for the first bank failure in the United States in 1809. Although he spent the last 30 years of his life on the run from numerous creditors and died in debt, he never stopped juggling visionary projects. Kamensky devotes almost as much attention to the Exchange Coffee House and its impact on contemporary thought as she does to Dexter's biography. She also weaves in an account of Nathan Appleton, born, like Dexter, in 1779, but destined for a longer and much more prosperous and respectable life fighting against Dexter and his ilk."@en . "The riveting story of the country's first banking scandal in the first decades of the American republic This enthralling historical narrative of the birth of speculative capitalism in America opens in the 1790s when financial pioneer-turned-confidence-man Andrew Dexter, Jr. created a pyramid scheme founded on real estate speculation and the greed of banks, who freely printed the paper money he needed to finance the then tallest building in the United States-the Exchange Coffee House, a 153-room, seven-story colossus in downtown Boston. The story of Dexter's rise and eventual collapse offered an object lesson to the rising young nation, and presents striking parallels to the subprime mortgage meltdown and looming economic collapse of today."@en . . . "The exchange artist : a tale of high-flying speculation and America's first banking collapse" . "The exchange artist : a tale of high-flying speculation and America's first banking collapse"@en . . . . "Profiles Andrew Dexter, Jr., a late-eighteenth-century financial pioneer-turned-confidence man, describing how he took advantage of suspicions about paper money and banks to promote a skyscraper building scheme that cost his investors millions of dollars." . "History." . . "Boston (Mass.) / Social conditions." . . "États-Unis" . . "United States / Social conditions / To 1865." . . . . "To 1865" . . "United States" . . "Bankenkrise." . .