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Even before he was taken dead on the stairway of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, financier Wayne "Jubilee Jim" Fisk, Jr., was a notorious New York City amount. From his audacious attempt to corner the yellow metal market in 1869 to his challenge for control of the geographically critical Erie Railroad, Fisk was a flamboyant exemplar of a fresh financial era marked by volatile fortunes and unprecedented greed and problem. Nonetheless it was his scandalously open affair with a showgirl known as Josie Mansfield that eventually led to his demise. In this riveting short history - the first in his North american Portraits series - H. W. Brand's traces Fisk's astonishing downfall, bringing alive New York's Gilded Era and some of its renowned players, including Supervisor William Tweed, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the railroad tycoon Jay Gould.
