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Book REvieW Shorto, Russell The Island at the Center of the World, 2005 Slack, Charles Hetty, 2005 Smith, Adam The Money Game, 1968 Smith, Adam The Wealth of Nations, 1776 Smith, Martin Hale Twenty Years Among the Bulls and Bears of Wall Street, 1870 Sobel, Robert The Great Bull Market, 1968 Sobel, Robert The Money Manias, 1973 Steele Gordon, John The Great Game, 2009 Steele Gordon, John An Empire of Wealth, 2004 Steele Gordon, John Hamilton’s Blessing, 1998 Steele Gordon, John A Thread Across the Ocean, 2002 Stewart, James Den of Thieves, 1991 Stiles, T.J. The First Tycoon, 2009 Strouse, Jean Morgan: American Financier, 1999 Taleb, Nassim Nicholas The Black Swan, 2007 Tarbell, Ida The History of the Standard Oil Company, 1904 Walker, David M. Comeback America, 2010 Winans, Kenneth G. Investment Atlas, 2008 Wright, Robert E. The First Wall Street, 2005 Wright, Robert E. One Nation Under Debt, 2008 Wright, Robert and Cowen, David Financial Founding Fathers, 2006 Yergin, Daniel The Prize, 1991 Zuckerman, Gregory The Greatest Trade Ever, 2010 Zuckoff, Mitchell Ponzi’s Scheme, 2006 Zweig, Jason The Little Book of Safe Money, 2009 Title: The Wealth of Nations Author: Adam Smith Year of Publication: 1776 The granddaddy of them all. Literally an epic when the ink was still wet on the Declaration of Independence, the first printing sold out in mere months. This is the fountainhead from which all the others spring. It influenced the American and French Revolutions. It is to economics what Newton was to mathematics and Darwin to biology. Of all the 100 books listed