This is the story of the street.... Wall Street, the events that shaped it and the characters that made and lost fortunes in the arenas that flanked it. Written in an informative, entertaining style, this book contains more than 50 vignettes of market history that range from colonial times to the present day. The vignettes are divided into 6 parts : the colonial period, birth of a nation, the gilded age, the money game, the global street, the computer age.