Smoke and The Gold Room
7 Short Stories About Our Country's First Trading PitBy Kenny Polcari
Length34m
About this audiobook
"Smoke and the Gold Room" is a vivid audio collection of 7 short stories about America’s first trading pit. Each tale captures a pivotal moment or figure: a British banker stunned by the abstract trades of 1866; Salmon Chase’s 1861 creation of the Greenback to save the Union; outcast traders in the 1862 “Coal Hole” birthing modern finance; the Gold Room’s real-time pricing of Civil War battles; conservative bankers abandoning the gold standard; Jay Cooke selling bonds to farmers; and the gritty room where human emotion and market precision shaped a nation’s fate. Raw, chaotic, and patriotic, these stories reveal the roots of American capitalism.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)
GenreTrue Crime, Business and Economics
Length34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 23, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Intro
64: "The Coal Hole"
2Table of Contents
75: "Thirty Percent Gone"
31: "The Fish That Swim Free"
86: "The Weight of the Republic"
42: "Faster Than the Telegraph"
97: "The Seedy and the Sacred"
53: "Selling Dreams to Farmers"
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