During the Wall Street panic of 1907, prosperous New York lawyer Allan Montague attempts to help his old friend from Mississippi, young widow Lucy Dupree, make it in the city, and after he helps her sell a block of stock, they are both caught up in the greedy scheme of a group of unscrupulous power brokers, which may devastate the financial world.
year: 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: socialites, fiction, speculation, rich people, financial crises, capitalists and financiers, wall street (new york, n.y.), fiction, new york (n.y.)