Author: Malcolm MacKay
Publisher: ibooks
ISBN: 1883283620
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
"In 'Impeccable Connections,' Malcolm MacKay, who knew his subject, attempts to fathom the man whom puzzled contemporaries could not." —Maxwell Carter, writing for the The Wall Street Journal “Read this spellbinding book, which repeatedly takes your breath away, and learn that some things never change.” —Craig R. Whitney, author of LIVING WITH GUNS: A LIBERAL’S CASE FOR THE SECOND AMENDMENT Although Richard Whitney is not a common name today, the story of his rise to the top of Wall Street and fall to Sing Sing presages the more recent trajectories of men such as Bernard Madoff, Ivan Boesky, and Charles Keating. In a sense, Whitney’s fall was even greater in that he started at the top of the old-guard establishment. “NOT DICK WHITNEY. NOT DICK WHITNEY!” President Franklin D. Roosevelt exclaimed upon being told Richard Whitney, the long-time president of the New York Stock Exchange, was a criminal. Almost ten years earlier, on October 24, 1929, Black Thursday, as one newspaper’s headline put it the next day, “Richard Whitney Halts Stock Panic.” In 1934, he appeared on the cover of Time magazine, hailed as the leader of the securities industry in its fight against New Deal regulation. Whitney’s message was clear: the securities industry could regulate itself, and the federal government should stay out. Sound familiar? This book tells the tale of Richard Whitney and describes in detail the banking and investment structure that precipitated the stock market collapse of 1929, and how as president of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Whitney played his role while manipulating powerful and trusted friends.
Impeccable Connections: The Rise and Fall of Richard Whitney
Author: Malcolm MacKay
Publisher: ibooks
ISBN: 1883283620
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
"In 'Impeccable Connections,' Malcolm MacKay, who knew his subject, attempts to fathom the man whom puzzled contemporaries could not." —Maxwell Carter, writing for the The Wall Street Journal “Read this spellbinding book, which repeatedly takes your breath away, and learn that some things never change.” —Craig R. Whitney, author of LIVING WITH GUNS: A LIBERAL’S CASE FOR THE SECOND AMENDMENT Although Richard Whitney is not a common name today, the story of his rise to the top of Wall Street and fall to Sing Sing presages the more recent trajectories of men such as Bernard Madoff, Ivan Boesky, and Charles Keating. In a sense, Whitney’s fall was even greater in that he started at the top of the old-guard establishment. “NOT DICK WHITNEY. NOT DICK WHITNEY!” President Franklin D. Roosevelt exclaimed upon being told Richard Whitney, the long-time president of the New York Stock Exchange, was a criminal. Almost ten years earlier, on October 24, 1929, Black Thursday, as one newspaper’s headline put it the next day, “Richard Whitney Halts Stock Panic.” In 1934, he appeared on the cover of Time magazine, hailed as the leader of the securities industry in its fight against New Deal regulation. Whitney’s message was clear: the securities industry could regulate itself, and the federal government should stay out. Sound familiar? This book tells the tale of Richard Whitney and describes in detail the banking and investment structure that precipitated the stock market collapse of 1929, and how as president of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Whitney played his role while manipulating powerful and trusted friends.
Publisher: ibooks
ISBN: 1883283620
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
"In 'Impeccable Connections,' Malcolm MacKay, who knew his subject, attempts to fathom the man whom puzzled contemporaries could not." —Maxwell Carter, writing for the The Wall Street Journal “Read this spellbinding book, which repeatedly takes your breath away, and learn that some things never change.” —Craig R. Whitney, author of LIVING WITH GUNS: A LIBERAL’S CASE FOR THE SECOND AMENDMENT Although Richard Whitney is not a common name today, the story of his rise to the top of Wall Street and fall to Sing Sing presages the more recent trajectories of men such as Bernard Madoff, Ivan Boesky, and Charles Keating. In a sense, Whitney’s fall was even greater in that he started at the top of the old-guard establishment. “NOT DICK WHITNEY. NOT DICK WHITNEY!” President Franklin D. Roosevelt exclaimed upon being told Richard Whitney, the long-time president of the New York Stock Exchange, was a criminal. Almost ten years earlier, on October 24, 1929, Black Thursday, as one newspaper’s headline put it the next day, “Richard Whitney Halts Stock Panic.” In 1934, he appeared on the cover of Time magazine, hailed as the leader of the securities industry in its fight against New Deal regulation. Whitney’s message was clear: the securities industry could regulate itself, and the federal government should stay out. Sound familiar? This book tells the tale of Richard Whitney and describes in detail the banking and investment structure that precipitated the stock market collapse of 1929, and how as president of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Whitney played his role while manipulating powerful and trusted friends.
Painting the Visual Impression
Author: Richard Whitney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938394126
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
This book is a summary of the fundamental ideas of representational painting that artists use to help them paint in a realistic manner. These concepts have been passed down from artist to student for generations. The author lists them in order of importance to help the working painter logically solve problems. He has added an "Index of Ideas" to help the artist commit them to memory. The first two sections of the book contain principles of composition and drawing. The main section deals with the impressionistic approach to painting nature in a broad manner with simplicity of detail. The author has included a section on helpful advice to students and an extensive reading list for further research. He also discusses how the artist can train his visual memory. Anyone with an interest in art can read this book and greatly increase their appreciation of classical painting.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938394126
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
This book is a summary of the fundamental ideas of representational painting that artists use to help them paint in a realistic manner. These concepts have been passed down from artist to student for generations. The author lists them in order of importance to help the working painter logically solve problems. He has added an "Index of Ideas" to help the artist commit them to memory. The first two sections of the book contain principles of composition and drawing. The main section deals with the impressionistic approach to painting nature in a broad manner with simplicity of detail. The author has included a section on helpful advice to students and an extensive reading list for further research. He also discusses how the artist can train his visual memory. Anyone with an interest in art can read this book and greatly increase their appreciation of classical painting.
The Art of Richard Whitney
Author: Richard Whitney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578331676
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
To mark a half century of work, I have assembled a retrospective show of my paintings with the stories behind them in the form of a book. I begin this book by briefly discussing my journey to becoming an artist, some highlights of my career and my approach to painting. Then follows the "exhibit". From over 900 paintings I have selected around 275 for inclusion in this book. Although I am best known as a portrait painter, I love landscape painting as well and most of the paintings are of the Monadnock region of NH where I live.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578331676
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
To mark a half century of work, I have assembled a retrospective show of my paintings with the stories behind them in the form of a book. I begin this book by briefly discussing my journey to becoming an artist, some highlights of my career and my approach to painting. Then follows the "exhibit". From over 900 paintings I have selected around 275 for inclusion in this book. Although I am best known as a portrait painter, I love landscape painting as well and most of the paintings are of the Monadnock region of NH where I live.
Statement of Richard Whitney President of the New York Stock Exchange, Before the Committee on Finance of the United States Senate in Regard to Certain Sections of the Revenue Act of 1932, H. R. 10,236, Entitled "An Act to Provide Revenue, Equalize Taxation and for Other Purposes."
Author: Richard Whitney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Securities
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Securities
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner
Author: Christine Macel
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300214820
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Published on the occasion of an exhibition celebrating the Wagners' promised gift of more than 850 works of art to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Musaee national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, November 20, 2015-March 6, 2016, and at the Centre Pompidou, June 16, 2016-January 2017.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300214820
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Published on the occasion of an exhibition celebrating the Wagners' promised gift of more than 850 works of art to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Musaee national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, November 20, 2015-March 6, 2016, and at the Centre Pompidou, June 16, 2016-January 2017.
The Sight-Size Cast
Author: Darren Rousar
Publisher: Velatura Press, LLC
ISBN: 9780980045482
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Within The Sight-Size Cast is everything you ever wanted to know about Sight-Size cast drawing and painting, impressionistic seeing, and the ways in which many of the ateliers that stem from R. H. Ives Gammell and Richard Lack teach their students. You can learn how to see through Sight-Size with Darren Rousar's book, The Sight-Size Cast.
Publisher: Velatura Press, LLC
ISBN: 9780980045482
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Within The Sight-Size Cast is everything you ever wanted to know about Sight-Size cast drawing and painting, impressionistic seeing, and the ways in which many of the ateliers that stem from R. H. Ives Gammell and Richard Lack teach their students. You can learn how to see through Sight-Size with Darren Rousar's book, The Sight-Size Cast.
Evidence, 1944-1994
Author: Richard Avedon
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 9780679409229
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Surveys each stage of Avedon's career, including portraits and fashion photographs
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 9780679409229
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Surveys each stage of Avedon's career, including portraits and fashion photographs
Richard Whitney Addresses
Author: Richard Whitney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Depressions
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Depressions
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Rachel Harrison Life Hack
Author: Elisabeth Sussman
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300246854
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
"The work of the sculptor Rachel Harrison is both the zeitgeist and the least digestible in contemporary art. It may also be the most important, owing to an originality that breaks a prevalent spell in an art world of recycled genres, styles, and ideas."--Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker In her sculptures, room-sized installations, drawings, photographs, and artist's books, Rachel Harrison (b. 1966) delves into themes of celebrity culture, pop psychology, history, and politics. This publication, created in close collaboration with the artist, explores twenty-five years of her practice and is the first comprehensive monograph on Harrison in nearly a decade. Its centerpiece is an in-depth plate section, which doubles as a chronology of Harrison's major works, series, and exhibitions. Objects are illustrated with multiple views and details, and accompanied by short texts. This thorough approach elucidates Harrison's complicated, eclectic oeuvre--in which she integrates found materials with handmade sculptural elements, upends traditions of museum display, and injects quotidian objects with a sense of strangeness. Six accompanying essays cover Harrison's earliest works to her most recent output. The book also includes a handful of photo-collages that the artist created specifically for this project. Published here for the first time, these pieces superimpose found images with reproductions of Harrison's own past work.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300246854
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
"The work of the sculptor Rachel Harrison is both the zeitgeist and the least digestible in contemporary art. It may also be the most important, owing to an originality that breaks a prevalent spell in an art world of recycled genres, styles, and ideas."--Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker In her sculptures, room-sized installations, drawings, photographs, and artist's books, Rachel Harrison (b. 1966) delves into themes of celebrity culture, pop psychology, history, and politics. This publication, created in close collaboration with the artist, explores twenty-five years of her practice and is the first comprehensive monograph on Harrison in nearly a decade. Its centerpiece is an in-depth plate section, which doubles as a chronology of Harrison's major works, series, and exhibitions. Objects are illustrated with multiple views and details, and accompanied by short texts. This thorough approach elucidates Harrison's complicated, eclectic oeuvre--in which she integrates found materials with handmade sculptural elements, upends traditions of museum display, and injects quotidian objects with a sense of strangeness. Six accompanying essays cover Harrison's earliest works to her most recent output. The book also includes a handful of photo-collages that the artist created specifically for this project. Published here for the first time, these pieces superimpose found images with reproductions of Harrison's own past work.
Reds in America
Author: Richard Merrill Whitney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description