The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance (Unabridged‪)‬

The second son of an Austrian emigre, Anthony Drexel (1826-1893) soon established himself as the preeminent financial mind in the Philadelphia currency brokerage his father began in 1838. Shunning publicity, self-promotion, and high-profile public accolades (he declined President Ulysses S. Grant's invitation to become secretary of the Treasury), Drexel initiated a partnership with J. P. Morgan and his father, Junius, that became the most powerful financial combination of its age.

Dan Rottenberg has succeeded in writing the first biography of this exceptionally influential and elusive man.

The book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press.