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Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext 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 The 1960s was one of Wall Street's most speculative eras. Brooks chronicles this era while educating readers about the take-off growth sprees of Wall Street's 1960s and the crashes of the 1970s, reminding investors that Wall Street has always been a source of hope, havoc, and hyperbole. Inhaltsverzeichnis Climax: The Day Henry Ross Perot Lost $450 Million. Fair Exchange: The Year the Amex Delisted the Old GuardRomans. The Last Gatsby: Recessional for Edward M. Gilbert. Palmy Days and Low Rumblings: Early Warnings Along WallStreet. Northern Exposure: Early Warnings Along Bay Street. The Birth of Go-Go: The Rise of a Proper Chinese Bostonian. The Conglomerateurs: Corporate Chutzpah and CreativeAccounting. The Enormous Back Room: Drugs, Fails, and Chaos Among theClerks. 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 GarbageMarket. 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....
