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Investing for Middle America: John Elliott Tappan and the Origins of American Express Financial Advisors

By Kenneth Lipartito , Carol Heher Peters

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave
Year
2001
ISBN
0312233981, 9780312233983
Open Library ID
OL18341818M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14246156 bytes)
Pages
279\279
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

In 1892, John Elliott Tappan, a 24-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 US'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 modern notions of consumer finance.

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