Deals of the Century : Wall Street, Mergers, and the Making of Modern America

by Geisst, Charles R.

• ISBN13: 9780471736035
• ISBN10: 0471736031
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-06
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Throughout history, mergers and acquisitions have been the major game played on Wall Street. These deals have had far-reaching effects, on the worlds of finance and industry-more than most commentators or financiers are publicly willing to admit.

Author Biography

Charles Geisst is the author of thirteen books, including The Last Partnerships: Inside the Great Wall Street Money Dynasties (McGraw Hill, 2001), Monopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gates (Oxford University Press, 2000), 100 Years of Wall Street (an illustrated history, McGraw-Hill, 1999), and Wall Street: A History (Oxford University Press, 1997). Wall Street: A History was widely reviewed and was on the New York Times Business Bestseller List for three months and was a selection of the History Book Club and the Book of the Month Club International.

From 1972-75, Geisst taught political science in an open admissions environment in the City University of New York before taking a job on Wall Street. Subsequently, he worked as a capital markets analyst and investment banker at several investment banks in the City of London. Since 1985 he has taught finance at Manhattan College where he is presently a professor of finance. He was named the college's first Louis F. Capalbo Chair in Business in 1993. Consulting assignments in financial markets have been with Cazenove & Co., S.G. Warburg & Co., the Hudson Institute, and J.P. Morgan & Co. Listed in Who's Who and a frequent participant in Renaissance Weekend, he has published professional and trade articles in magazines and journals such as the International Herald Tribune, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Newsday and Euromoney.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Building the Infrastructure	1	(46)
Driving to the Store	47	(44)
Power Plays and Conspiracy Theories	91	(40)
Roll Over, Euclid	131	(48)
Visigoths versus the Legions	179	(54)
Spawned by Deregulation	233	(44)
Old Bedfellows	277	(36)
Bibliography	313	(6)
Index	319