Investing in Middle America

John Elliott Tappan and the Origins of American Express Financial Advisors
2001. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-312-23398-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

In 1892, John Elliott Tappan, a twenty-four year old Minneapolis lawyer, was worried how people saved their money. Out of these concerns, Investors Syndicate was born, one of the first of a new type of financial institution designed to meet the savings needs of the average person. Here is the story of this financial pioneer, whose innovation has today grown into one of the nation's largest financial services companies, American Express Financial Advisors. The book draws on Tappan's diaries, business correspondence, and various family oral histories. Tappan's life, work and ideas chronicle the changes in spending and savings, work and leisure, the culture of politics and money, that have given rise to our modern notions of consumer finance.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lipartito, K.

Peters, C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Acknowledgements Prologue From Frontier to Finance The Money Question A Foundation of Trust A Turning Point Adversity and Survival The Agency System War and Betrayal Into the Sunset Epilogue Notes on Sources

Über Autor(innen)

KENNETH LIPARTITO, Professor of History at Florida International University, Miami, is a specialist in business history.

CAROL HEHER PETERS is Communications Editor for the Princeton Environmental Institute at Princeton University. She is the great-granddaughter of John Elliott Tappan.