John Brooks

The Go-Go Years

The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s

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Produktbeschreibung

Praise for The Go-Go Years "Those for whom the stock market is mostly a spectator sport will relish the book's verve, color, and memorable one-liners." --New York Review of Books "Please don't take The Go-Go Years too much for granted: as effortlessly as it seems to fly, it is nonetheless an unusually complex and thoughtful work of social history." --New York Times "Brooks's great contribution is his synthesis of all the elements that made the 1960s the most volatile in Wall Street history . . . and making so much material easily digestible for the uninitiated." --Publishers Weekly "Brooks . . . is about the only writer around who combines a thorough knowledge of finance with the ability to perceive behind the dance of numbers 'high, pure, moral melodrama on the themes of possession, domination, and belonging.'" --Time

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 689g
• ISBN-13: 9780471357551
• ISBN-10: 0471357553
• Artikelnr.: 21759239

Autorenporträt

JOHN BROOKS was an award-winning New Yorker staff writer and author of several critically acclaimed explorations of business and Wall Street, including Once in Golconda (a Wiley Investment Classic), The Games Players , Business Adventures, and The Fate of the Edsel.

Inhaltsangabe

Climax: The Day Henry Ross Perot Lost $450 Million. Fair Exchange: The Year
the Amex Delisted the Old Guard Romans. The Last Gatsby: Recessional for
Edward M. Gilbert. Palmy Days and Low Rumblings: Early Warnings Along Wall
Street. Northern Exposure: Early Warnings Along Bay Street. The Birth of
Go-Go: The Rise of a Proper Chinese Bostonian. The Conglomerateurs:
Corporate Chutzpah and Creative Accounting. The Enormous Back Room: Drugs,
Fails, and Chaos Among the Clerks. Go-Go at High Noon: The View from
Trinity Church. Confrontation: Steinberg/Leasco vs. Renchard/Chemical Bank.
Revelry Before Waterloo: The Time of the Great Garbage Market. The 1970
Crash: To the Edge of the Abyss. Saving Graces: The Invisible Samaritans of
Wall Street. The Go-Go Years. Notes on Sources. Index.