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What happens when the promise of easy money becomes stronger than good judgment?
In The Plunderers, Edwin Lefevre takes you into a world of New York money markets, brokers, offices and deals. Men chase wealth, and schemes grow around their ambitions. The danger lies not only in what people stand to lose, but in what they are willing to believe.
Lefevre brings a financial writer’s close attention to the way people talk and think about money. Con artists and market schemes depend on trust, while greed makes clever people take risks they would warn others against. This is a story of speculation where the wish for more puts judgment under pressure.
What you’ll discover
- Wall Street from within Enter the offices and deals of a financial world Lefevre knows closely.
- The lure of more Follow the pull of easy money as ambition begins to cloud sound judgment.
- Trust becomes a weakness Explore how a scheme depends on persuading other people to believe in it.
- People revealed by money Watch what people say about wealth reveal how they think and what they want.
- Deals without the jargon Find plain explanations that bring financial schemes into focus without burying their human stakes.
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- Schemes depend on trust
- Greed clouds good judgment
- How a financial writer tells a story
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The Plunderers
by Edwin Lefevre· 1916
Men chase easy money through schemes in New York finance.
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Wall Street as a stage for drama
Lefevre wrote from inside the financial world of early twentieth century America. He worked as a journalist and writer on money matters, and he knew how brokers, bankers and speculators talked and thought. That background gives his fiction its sense of place.
A story set on Wall Street has natural stakes. Fortunes are made and lost on rumor, timing and trust. Readers of this kind of book meet a world where a single decision can change a life.
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Edwin Lefevre
1871–1943 · American journalist and novelist
Edwin Lefèvre (1871–1943) was an American journalist and author. He was born in Colón, in what is now Panama, and later lived in the United States, including Vermont. He wrote about finance and Wall Street. His books include Wall Street Stories (1901) and Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923).
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The Plunderers was written by Edwin Lefevre, an American journalist and author who covered finance and Wall Street. He died in 1943 and is best remembered for Reminiscences of a Stock Operator.
What kind of book is The Plunderers?
It is a work of fiction set in the world of money, markets and speculation. Its themes are ambition, trust, schemes and the effects of greed on people who work with money.
Is The Plunderers a true story?
It is presented as fiction. Its author knew Wall Street well as a financial journalist, so the setting and the way people talk about money reflect a real world, even though the story is made up.
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