Picture, if you can, a time when New York wasn’t the center of the financial universe. A time when the business and investment capital of our great nation was Philadelphia, home of the Bank of the United States, the U.S. Mint, the country’s first stock exchange, and several major banks all clustered on or around Chestnut Street—the thoroughfare which historian Robert Wright dubs The First Wall Street. Here in this fascinating work, Wright recounts the forgotten story of Chestnut Street and its pivotal role in the birth of American finance.… Read the press release.
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