Humanity has not changed two main motives for thousands of years. It's money and power. The gentle, romantic title of novels about financial fraud - "Trilogy of Desire" - suggests that Theodore Dreiser perfectly understood the nature of human passions.

The image of Frank Cowperwood is based on the American millionaire Charles Yerkes. Before our eyes, he is rapidly moving from a talented person from a modest family to an influential and super-rich person. Frank not only makes money with a twinkle, he also wins the love of women and fame in professional circles. He is a skilled manipulator, like all people who naturally have the ability to please others. It is this skill, coupled with the talent of a financier and a bright head, that makes him an outstanding figure. But it also deprives him of moral and ethical guidelines, forcing him to harshly sweep away all ethical barriers in his desire to succeed. Both losses and defeats await him, but in the first main book of the cycle, Frank is brilliantly good, and together with the author we admire him, in many ways not thanks to, but in spite of.

The world of big money does not always smell good, but laws in it do not change for decades. In this sense, The Financier will never become obsolete. Knowledge from it can be gleaned from a textbook on finance, only fascinatingly written. Schemes for making money, as well as schemes for influencing people, have long been inscribed in the classics of American and world literature.

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