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After the Ball
After the Ball
After the Ball
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After the Ball

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Glamorous, cultured, and ambitious -- but fatally young and naive -- James Hazen Hyde was twenty-three when he inherited the majority shares in the billion-dollar Equitable Life Assurance Society in 1899. Five years later, at the pinnacle of social and financial success, he made a fatal miscalculation, and set in motion the first great Wall Street scandal of the twentieth century.

On the last night of January 1905, Hyde gave one of the most fabulous balls of the Gilded Age. Falsely accused of charging the party to his company, he was sucked into a maelstrom of allegations of corporate malfeasance that involved the era's most famous financiers and industrialists. The shocking revelations that followed commanded hundreds of front-page stories and led to a government investigation that became a nationwide obsession and changed the law.

Set against a backdrop of magnificence, excess, and corrupting glamour, "After the Ball's" themes are stunningly fresh: greed and chicanery, flawed love between fathers and sons, and contradictory American attitudes about wealth.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherXlibris US
Release dateJan 8, 2009
ISBN9781524526375
After the Ball
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Patricia Beard

Patricia Beard is the author of After the Ball and hundreds of national magazine articles. She has been an editor at Elle, Town & Country, and Mirabella. Beard lives in upstate New York.

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    This life and times of James Hazen Hyde, ill-fated heir to the Equitable Life Insurance Society, is as much a study of shady business practices as it is a slice of life of the cream of Edwardian-era society in America. A friend of the Hyde family, Beard examines step-by-step the descent into turmoil of James Hyde, as he inherited a position that he was little trained to hold, until betrayed by the men Hyde's father thought would do his bidding even after his death. The one question that Beard really can't answer is how much was the executive plot against Hyde simply a palace coup, and how much were these men put up to it by outside interests. All in all a good little read, that fortuitously happens to mirror our own social conditions.

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