Traces the history of Wall Street, explaining how it transformed from an object of suspicion and fear to a more inviting place promising Americans wealth and prosperity.

pt. 1. Buccaneers and confidence men on the financial frontier. -- Revolution and counterrevolution -- Monsters, aristocrats, and confidence men -- From confidence man to colossus -- Wall Street in Coventry -- pt. 2. The imperial age. -- The engine room of corporate capitalism -- The great Satan -- Wall Street and the decline of Western Civilization -- Wall Street is dead! long live Wall Street! -- Other people's money -- War and peace on Wall Street -- A season in Utopia -- pt. 3. The age of Ignominy. -- Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? -- Evicted from the temple -- The long good-bye -- pt. 4. The world turned upside down. -- The return of the repressed -- Shareholder nation.