Forging Swords into Plowshares: My Boardwalk Empire

The doctor of financial engineering and maritime history traveled through the Netherlands in 1662 and became Van de Velde, the son of a Jewish businessman whose family was in decline. He swept the Amsterdam financial market with modern knowledge and took control of the East India Company. He won three Anglo-Dutch wars and thwarted Louis XIV's land invasion. He ended the century-old internal struggle between the republican and royal factions, rewrote the fate of the Netherlands' rapid decline, and created his own global maritime empire.