Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle-Class InvestorsWall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle Class Investors focuses on the spectacularly successful career of financier Charles Merrill (1885 1956), the founder of Merrill Lynch & Co., the world's largest brokerage and investment firm. Merrill was the most innovative entrepreneur in the United States financial services sector in the twentieth century. He was the most important figure in promoting common stocks as a prudent long term