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Millionaire : The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance
Millionaire The Philanderer Gambler and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance
Author: Janet Gleeson
On the death of France's most glorious king, Louis XIV, in 1715, few people benefited from the shift in power more than the intriguing financial genius from Edinburgh, John Law. Already notorious for killing a man in a duel and for acquiring a huge fortune from gambling, Law had proposed to the English monarch that a bank be established to i...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780684872957
ISBN-10: 0684872951
Publication Date: 7/6/2000
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Simon Schuster
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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