The Dark Genius of Wall Street The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons by Edward J. Renehan Jr. Basic Books, 352 pp., $30 Jay Gould was blasted in his obituary as "a wrecker ...

”The Gold Ring: Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, and Black Friday, 1869,” by Kenneth D. Ackerman. Harper & Row, 352 pages, $12.95 A year ago, when reports of the FBI investigation at Chicago`s two major ...

The suit of CHARLES C. ALLEN against JAMES FISK, Jr., and JAY GOULD, for false imprisonment, the facts of which have been published in the TIMES, has been settled by a compromise with the plaintiff.

But he had an ally: Jim Fisk. Wikimedia Though physically and temperamentally Gould's opposite, Fisk had made his fortunate in largely the same way, scheming their way on Wall Street.

Shades of Jim Fisk and Jay Gould! Like those 19th century robber barons, hedge funds and buyout firms have been swarming around railroads in 2007.

Gould and his bumptious crony Jim Fisk fought back by buying cows in Chicago and, in Steinmetz’s words, “shipping them to market at Vanderbilt’s bargain rates.” ...

Little did he know that as he was buying up every Erie share on the market, Erie partners Jay Gould and James Fisk countered by putting 100,000 fake Erie stocks for sale, a trick that wouldn't ...

Fisk and partner Jay Gould began with the Erie railroad and, at the height of their spectacular careers, virtually cornered and manipulated the country's private gold reserve. Playwright Timothy ...

Gould went on to control a number of other interests, including the Western Union Telegraph Company and the Manhattan Elevated Railroad. Fisk's luck — and Fisk himself — proved shorter lived.

The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield by H.W. Brands Anchor, 224 pp., $15 (paper) ...