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

by Brooks, John; Lewis, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780471357551
• ISBN10: 0471357553
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-21
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Praise for The Go-Go Years "Those for whom the stock market is mostly a spectator sport will relish the books verve, color, and memorable one-liners." -- New York Review of Books "Please dont 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 "Brookss 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

Author Biography

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. Yale Law Journal said of him that "John Brooks...may well be the best historian of high and low finance since...Charles Francis Adams and his brother Henry chronicled the rascalities of Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, Daniel Drew, and Cornelius Vanderbilt more than a century ago."

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Michael Lewis
Climax	1	(25)
The Day Henry Ross Perot Lost $450 Million
Fair Exchange	26	(29)
The Year the Amex Delisted the Old Guard Romans
The Last Gatsby	55	(26)
Recessional for Edward M. Gilbert
Palmy Days and Low Rumblings	81	(23)
Early Warnings Along Wall Street
Northern Exposure	104	(23)
Early Warnings Along Bay Street
The Birth of Go-Go	127	(23)
The Rise of a Proper Chinese Bostonian
The Conglomerateurs	150	(32)
Corporate Chutzpah and Creative Accounting
The Enormous Back Room	182	(24)
Drugs, Fails, and Chaos Among the Clerks
Go-Go at High Noon	206	(21)
The View from Trinity Church
Confrontation	227	(33)
Steinberg/Leasco vs. Renchard/Chemical Bank
Revelry Before Waterloo	260	(31)
The Time of the Great Garbage Market
The 1970 Crash	291	(20)
To the Edge of the Abyss
Saving Graces	311	(37)
The Invisible Samaritans of Wall Street
The Go-Go Years	348	(10)
Notes on Sources	358	(6)
Index	364