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Theodore Dreiser's The Financier (1912), the opening volume of his Trilogy of Desire, is a searching naturalist study of ambition, capital, and moral elasticity in post–Civil War America. Centered on Frank Cowperwood, a Philadelphia financier modeled partly on Charles T. Yerkes, the novel examines the mechanisms of banking, municipal politics, speculation, and social ascent with documentary precis...
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Theodore Dreiser's The Financier (1912), the opening volume of his Trilogy of Desire, is a searching naturalist study of ambition, capital, and moral elasticity in post–Civil War America. Centered on Frank Cowperwood, a Philadelphia financier modeled partly on Charles T. Yerkes, the novel examines the mechanisms of banking, municipal politics, speculation, and social ascent with documentary precis...
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