Publisher's Synopsis
In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first cash passing via way of means of a public sale, he correctly bids for seven instances of Castile soap, which he sells to a grocer the equal day with earnings of over 70 percent. Later, he receives an activity in Henry Waterman & Company, and leaves it for Tighe & Company. He additionally marries a prosperous widow, regardless of his younger age. Over the years, he begins offevolved misusing municipal finances with the resource of the City Treasurer. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire redounds to an inventory marketplace crash, prompting him to be bankrupt and exposed. Although he tries to browbeat his manner out of being sentenced to prison via way of means of intimidating Mr Stener, politicians from the Republican Party use their affect to apply him as a scapegoat for his or her personal corrupt practices. Meanwhile, he has an affair with Aileen Butler, a younger girl, next to dropping religion in his wife. She vows to look forward to him after his prison sentence. Her father, Mr Butler dies; she grows other than her family.
