Ursa Major: The Rise and Fall of America's First Great BearKenny Polcari
Length30m
About this audiobook
Lower Manhattan, October 13, 1857. The morning sun struggles through the dense smoke rising from countless chimneys, casting long shadows across the cobblestones of Wall Street. Inside the exchange building, panic spreads like fire through dry timber. Men in dark coats cluster around the trading posts, their voices rising in desperate crescendo. At the center of the chaos, a slight figure in a gray coat stands motionless—Jacob Little, the man they call "Ursa Major," watching his final fortune evaporate before his eyes. This is how legends die: not with a bang, but with the quiet calculation of a man who has seen it all before. For the past twenty-three years, Little has made and lost more money than any man in America. He has invented market manipulation as an art form, survived two panics, and created the template for every great speculator who would follow. Today, the market that made him will finally, permanently, break him.
Antihero
Psychological
Thriller
Conspiracy
Battle
Revenge
Journey
Betrayal
Noir
Audiobook details
GenreTrue Crime, Business and Economics
Length30 mins
Narrated bySelect Your Own
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 7, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Story of Jacob Little
8The Great Bear Emerges
2Sons of the Revolution
9The Panic Prophet
3The Education of a Bear
10The Fatal Reversal
4The Making of Ursa Major
11Death of Ursa Major
5The Morris Canal Masterstroke
12The Eternal Bear Market
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6The Happy Family's Revenge
13Epilogue: The Pattern Endures
7The London Gambit
About the author
Kenny Polcari
Kenny Polcari is the host of Trader Talk on Yahoo Finance, and a lifelong lover of the markets, among the last of the NYSE floor traders. View all by Kenny Polcari
