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Impeccable Connections: The Rise and Fall of Richard Whitney
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""Impeccable Connections: The Rise and Fall of Richard Whitney"" traces the fascinating trajectory of a Massachusetts Brahmin who was president of the New York Stock Exchange in the early 1930s. ""Whitney fought every attempt by the Federal Government to regulate the exchange back then because it was ""perfect"" as it was. Widely regarded even by patrician friends as an insufferable snob, with a background from Groton, Harvard, and New Jersey foxhunting country, after Prohibition he bet all...