The money game in old New York: Daniel Drew and his times.

The Money Game in Old New York: Daniel Drew, and His Times. By Clifford Browder. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1986. viii + 319 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $28.00.

The Money Game in Old New York is a history as fresh as tomorrow's New York Times or Wall Street Journal. Daniel Drew was the original "inside trader." His sobriquets--the "Old Bear," the "Speculative Director," the "Merry Old Gentleman of Wall Street"--his talents for "skinning the market" and commercial legerdemain, and his reputation for greed, deceit, and cunning treachery are scarcely exceeded by today's financial felons. Even Drew's double life as a practicing, pious Methodist (be was founder of Drew Seminary and benefactor of Wesleyan …