author
Henry Clews
1836–1923
A Wall Street power broker with a gift for vivid storytelling, this British-born American financier wrote from direct experience at the center of 19th-century banking and politics. His books turn market history into firsthand drama, mixing sharp opinions with a keen sense of how money and public life shape each other.
1 Audiobook
Fifty years in Wall Street
by Henry Clews
About the author
Born in England and later active in the United States, Henry Clews was a banker, financier, and writer whose career placed him close to some of the biggest economic and political events of his era. He became well known on Wall Street and built a reputation strong enough to make him a recognizable public voice on finance and national affairs.
Clews is especially remembered for writing about the financial world from the inside. Works such as Twenty-Eight Years in Wall Street draw on his own experience to describe markets, speculation, government finance, and the personalities who drove business life in the 1800s. That firsthand perspective gives his writing both historical value and lively energy.
He also moved in prominent political circles and was associated with figures including Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln. For listeners interested in money, power, and the making of modern American business, his work offers a direct window into the culture of Gilded Age finance.