Book : Prince Of Darkness - White, Shane

-Titulo Original : Prince Of Darkness

-Fabricante :

Picador

-Descripcion Original:

In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a well-known figure on Wall Street. And Hamilton was African American. Although his origins were lowly, possibly slave, he was reportedly the richest black man in the United States, possessing a fortune of two million, or in excess of two hundred and fifty million in today’s currency. In Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Streets First Black Millionaire, a groundbreaking account, eminent historian Shane White reveals the larger-than-life story of a man who defied every convention of his time. Review **Winner of the 2016 New York City Book Award****Winner of the 2015 Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Best Book Prize**This is historical detective work of the highest magnitude... Indeed, the feeling the book left the prize committee with after its 300-plus pages was: how could the story of an American character this fascinating nothave been written before? 2015 SHEAR Best Book Prize citation“If this Hamilton were around today, he might have his own reality TV show or be a candidate for president...An interesting look at old New York, race relations and high finance.” New York Post“White details his incredible life, marriage to a white woman, and contentious presence on Wall Street, in the process revealing the ways that historians reconstruct the past. An engaging look at an extraordinary man.” Booklist“Hamiltons story is gripping; so, too, is his puzzling near disappearance from the historical record. White does an excellent job drawing out the facts of Hamiltons life and supplementing them with details from the history of Wall Street and of other African American New Yorkers of the era.” Library Journal“Pieces together the remarkable career of an antebellum Wall Street broker who was married to a white woman, ambitious, ruthless, successful, and black: in short, a racists nightmare come to life. ... Superb scholarship and a sprightly style recover an unaccountably overlooked life.” Kirkus Reviews“Villain? Hustler? Financial Genius? Black Horatio Alger? The White Mans worst nightmare? With panoramic vision and panache, Shane White unravels the mystery that is Jeremiah G. Hamilton.” Robin D. G. Kelley, author of THELONIOUS MONK: The Life and Times of an American Original (2009)“Shane White employs the superb skills of an accomplished historian to narrate the compelling story of a New York Hamilton who commanded front page news attention in his day and faded into obscurity in the years that followed. Jeremiah Hamilton was not only Americas first black millionaire, he was a ruthless businessman and trader who sparked fear, contempt, jealousy and a range of other emotions from contemporaries and adversaries. A fine read, I highly recommend this important new book.” Earl Lewis, President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and co-author with Heidi Ardizzone, LOVE ON TRIAL“Shane Whites impeccably researched book offers a compelling history of Jeremiah Hamilton, Americas first black Wall Street millionaire. Prince of Darkness tells the complex story of race and wealth in antebellum New York, with a mysterious and sometimes purposefully ambiguous character at its center. From the islands of the Caribbean to Gotham, Hamilton welded together grit and intellectual agility that propelled him into unimaginable wealth. Unlike his African American contemporaries, Jeremiah Hamilton was less concerned with respectability politics or racial uplift. The Prince of Darkness was a man who wanted to be rich, and nothing would stand in his way.” Erica Armstrong Dunbar, author of A FRAGILE FREEDOM: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City“At a time when Gotham was virtually inventing segregation, long before the South did, a black man bulled his way into Wall Street, the citys whitest citadel, and ruthlessly made a fortune there. He challenged social cod