How Wall Street Created a Nation: J.P. Morgan, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Panama Canal

by Ovidio Diaz-Espino

Overview

How Wall Street Created a Nation: J.P. Morgan, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Panama Canal narrates the dramatic and gripping account of the beginnings of the Panama Canal led by a group of Wall Street speculators with the help of Teddy Roosevelt’s government. The result of four years of research, the book offers the real story of how the United States obtained the rights to build the Canal through financial speculation, fraud, and an international conspiracy that brought down a French republic and a Colombian government, created the Republic of Panama, rocked the invincible President Roosevelt with corruption scandals, and gave birth to U.S. imperialism in Latin America.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149646746
Publisher:	Primedia eLaunch
Publication date:	08/01/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	276
Sales rank:	553,533
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Ovidio Diaz Espino was born in Panama. He holds a degree in political sciences from UCLA, a master in international laws from Cambridge University and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley. He worked as a lawyer in several prestigious Wall Street firms, including JP Morgan & Co. As an expert on Panama, he has appeared in History Channel and PBS documentaries, has been interviewed in CNN and other television stations, and his articles have been published in several newspapers, magazines and books in the U.S. He lives between Panama and New York City.