Alan Shrugged
Alan Greenspan, the World's Most Powerful Banker
Chapter One
You know how it was in the early days, before the
population explosion and urbanization covered
the natural beauty of Manhattan with a hard shell
of concrete and brick. Only Native Americans lived in the finger of
land on the northern rim of the island, with its lush wilderness of
hills, valleys, and cliffs. The cliffs sloped sharply downward toward
two of New York City's three great rivers, the Hudson to the west
and the Harlem to the east. In 1626, the Native Americans sold their
birthright to European colonists who turned the fecund soil into a
patchwork of farms within half a century. The most famous among
them was Dyckman Farm, three hundred acres of farmland owned
by a Dutch settler named William Dyckman in the mid-eighteenth
century.
The War for Independence, and particularly the Battle of Fort
Washington, brought an abrupt end to the bucolic life of the
colonists in Upper Manhattan. A fort, named after General George
Washington, was b ... read full excerpt from Alan Shrugged: Alan Greenspan, the World's Most Powerful Banker ebook
