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After The New Economy
by Doug Henwood

ISBN 1565849833 (1-56584-983-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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After the Ball: Gilded Age Secrets, Boardroom Betrayals, and the Party That Ignited the Great Wall Street Scandal of 1905
by Patricia Beard

ISBN 0060958928 (0-06-095892-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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After the Ball is the story of the dramatic events of 1905, when James Hazen Hyde, the flamboyant young heir to the majority shares in the billion-dollar Equitable Life Assurance Society, became the central figure in the most far-reaching financial scandal of the era. The catalyst was the Hyde Ball, an opulent 18th century costume party, which Hyde's mentor falsely accused him of charging to their company. For one fascinating year, James Hyde's story riveted millions of Americans, and commanded 115 front-page stories in the New York Times alone. The revelations dug deep into the secrets of Wall Street, opening a window to financial chicanery that is shockingly familiar a century later. This tale of fathers and sons; love, trust, and betrayal unfolds against a setting of magnificent excess, and draws in the most famous tycoons and politicians of the era- J.P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman, Henry Clay Frick, and President Theodore Roosevelt. In the aftermath of a widely publicized government investigation, Hyde fled to a long, luxurious exile in Paris, met his nemesis one more time on camelback at the Pyramids, married three extraordinary women, and, when the Nazis invaded France, at last returned to New York after thirty-five years abroad. [via]
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American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis

ISBN 0679735771 (0-679-73577-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.
Blurb in Spanish: Mucho se ha hablado de American Psycho. Y lo cierto es que había razón para tanta polémica, pues esta novela de Bret Easton Ellis constituye una de las críticas más feroces que un escritor norteamericano ha hecho a su propio país: una sociedad autocomplaciente y orgullosa de si misma. Para su denuncia, el autor ha escogido un camino arriesgado: Patrick Bateman, el protagonista, no es un rebelde ni un paria; Patrick es un joven de éxito que, sin embargo, también es capaz de violar, torturar y asesinar. Como dijo Fay Weldom, American Psycho es de alguna forma el oscuro complemento de La hoguera de las vanidades, por cuanto descubre aquellos puntos negros de la vida de los supuestos triunfadores que la novela de Tom Wolfe quiso obviar. [via]
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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of Rjr Nabisco
by John Helyar, Bryan Burrough

ISBN 0060536357 (0-06-053635-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Over six months on the New York Times bestseller list, Barbarians at the Gate is the definitive account of the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's gripping record of the frenzy that overtook Wall Street in October and November of 1988 is the story of deal makers and pulicity flaks, of strategy meetings and society dinners, of boardrooms and bedrooms, giving us not only an unprecedentedly detailed look at how financial operations at the highest levels are conducted but also a richly textured social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era. As compelling as a novel, Barbarians at the Gate is must reading for everyone interested in the way today's world really works.
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The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market
by Robert Sobel, Broadus Mitchell

ISBN 1893122662 (1-893122-66-2)
Softcover, Beard Books Inc

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Bombardiers
by Po Bronson

ISBN 0812971868 (0-8129-7186-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe

ISBN 0553275976 (0-553-27597-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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After Tom Wolfe defined the '60s in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and the cultural U-turn at the turn of the '80s in The Right Stuff, nobody thought he could ever top himself again. In 1987, when The Bonfire of the Vanities arrived, the literati called Wolfe an "aging enfant terrible."
He wasn't aging; he was growing up. Bonfire's pyrotechnic satire of 1980s New York wasn't just Wolfe's best book, it was the best bestselling fiction debut of the decade, a miraculously realistic study of an unbelievably status-mad society, from the fiery combatants of the South Bronx to the bubbling scum at the top of Wall Street. Sherman McCoy, a farcically arrogant investment banker (dubbed a "Master of the Universe," Wolfe's brilliant metaphorical co-opting of a then-important toy for boys), hits a black guy in the Bronx with his Mercedes and runs--right into a nightmare peopled by vicious mistresses, thin wives like "social x-rays," slime-bag politicos, tabloid hacks, and Dantesque denizens of the "justice" system. If the Coen and Marx brothers together dramatized The Great Gatsby, Wolfe's Bonfire would probably be funnier. Many think his second novel, A Man in Full, is deeper, but Bonfire will never die down.
You might find it interesting to compare the film The Bonfire of the Vanities, a fascinating calamity perpetrated by the geniuses Brian De Palma and Tom Hanks, with The Right Stuff, one of the very best films of the '80s. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street
by Peter L. Bernstein

ISBN 0029030129 (0-02-903012-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Capital Ideas traces the origins of modern Wall Street, from the pioneering work of early scholars and the development of new theories in risk, valuation, and investment returns, to the actual implementation of these theories in the real world of investment management. Bernstein brings to life a variety of brilliant academics who have contributed to modern investment theory over the years: Louis Bachelier, Harry Markowitz, William Sharpe, Fischer Black, Myron Scholes, Robert Merton, Franco Modigliani, and Merton Miller. Filled with in-depth insights and timeless advice, Capital Ideas reveals how the unique contributions of these talented individuals profoundly changed the practice of investment management as we know it today. [via]
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Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street
by David Payne

ISBN 0345326962 (0-345-32696-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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From the tranquillity of an Oriental monastery to the tumult of the New York Stock Exchange, the hero of this amazing novel embarks on a quest for a father, a fortune, and the ultimate essence of the universe. The illegitimate son of a Chinese woman and an American officer, he was reared as an orphan by Taoist monks. When he learns that his father may be a wealthy Wall Street entrepreneur, he feels compelled to go to New York. His efforts to reconcile his two lives -- to find the Tao in the Dow -- make a story rich in character, wit, and insight [via]
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Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst: A True Story of Inside Information And Corruption in the Stock Market
by Jennifer Reingold, Daniel Reingold

ISBN 0060747692 (0-06-074769-2)
Hardcover, Harperbusiness

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The Contrarians: A Novel
by Gary Sernovitz

ISBN 0805067787 (0-8050-6778-7)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry

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Curbstone Brokers: The Origins of the American Stock Exchange
by Robert Sobel

ISBN 1893122654 (1-893122-65-4)
Softcover, Beard Books Inc

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Den of Thieves
by James B. Stewart

ISBN 1568950012 (1-56895-001-2)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc

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Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role Of Chance In Life And In The Markets
by Nassim Taleb

ISBN 158799190X (1-58799-190-X)
Hardcover, Cengage Learning College

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If the prescriptions for getting rich that are outlined in books such as The Millionaire Next Door and Rich Dad Poor Dad are successful enough to make the books bestsellers, then one must ask, Why aren't there more millionaires? In Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professional trader and mathematics professor, examines what randomness means in business and in life and why human beings are so prone to mistake dumb luck for consummate skill. This eccentric and highly personal exploration of the nature of randomness meanders from the court of Croesus and trading rooms in New York and London to Russian roulette, Monte Carlo engines, and the philosophy of Karl Popper. Part of what makes this book so good is Taleb's ability to make seemingly arcane mathematical concepts (at least to this reviewer) entirely relevant in evaluating and understanding everything from the stock market to the success of those millionaires cited in the aforementioned bestsellers. Here's an articulate, wise, and humorous meditation on the nature of success and failure that anyone who wants a little more of the former would do well to consider. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards [via]
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life
by Nassim Taleb

ISBN 1587990717 (1-58799-071-7)
Hardcover, Texere

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If the prescriptions for getting rich that are outlined in books such as The Millionaire Next Door and Rich Dad Poor Dad are successful enough to make the books bestsellers, then one must ask, Why aren't there more millionaires? In Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professional trader and mathematics professor, examines what randomness means in business and in life and why human beings are so prone to mistake dumb luck for consummate skill. This eccentric and highly personal exploration of the nature of randomness meanders from the court of Croesus and trading rooms in New York and London to Russian roulette, Monte Carlo engines, and the philosophy of Karl Popper. Part of what makes this book so good is Taleb's ability to make seemingly arcane mathematical concepts (at least to this reviewer) entirely relevant in evaluating and understanding everything from the stock market to the success of those millionaires cited in the aforementioned bestsellers. Here's an articulate, wise, and humorous meditation on the nature of success and failure that anyone who wants a little more of the former would do well to consider. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards [via]
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God in the Pits: Confessions of a Commodities Trader
by Mark A. Ritchie

ISBN 0964695227 (0-9646952-2-7)
Softcover, Island Lake Pr

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The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street As a World Power 1653-2000
by John Steele Gordon

ISBN 0743200438 (0-7432-0043-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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In "The Great Game," acclaimed business historian John Steele Gordon chronicles the rise of Wall Street from its humble beginnings as an American trading post to its domination of the world economy, bringing to life the remarkable cast of bankers and brokers, visionaries and crooks who made it happen. From Alexander Hamilton to Michael Milken, the history of Wall Street is a history of risk, courage, avarice, patriotism, power, genius, and, occasionally, remarkable stupidity. In Gordon, Wall Street has finally found a biographer worthy of its extraordinary story. [via]
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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
by Ron Chernow

ISBN 0802138292 (0-8021-3829-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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The winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty. Acclaimed by The Wall Street Journal as "brilliantly researched and written," the book tells the rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned. It is the definitive account of the rise of the modern financial world. A gripping history of banking and the booms and busts that shaped the world on both sides of the Atlantic, The House of Morgan traces the trajectory of the J. P. Morgan empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the crash of 1987. Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the private saga of the Morgans and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved. Based on extensive interviews and access to the family and business archives, The House of Morgan is an investigative masterpiece, a compelling account of a remarkable institution and the men who ran it, and an essential book for understanding the money and power behind the major historical events of the last 150 years.
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How the U.S. Securities Industry Works
by Hal McIntyre

ISBN 0966917812 (0-9669178-1-2)
Hardcover, Summit Group

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Irrational Exuberance
by Robert J. Shiller

ISBN 0767907183 (0-7679-0718-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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CNBC, day trading, the Motley Fool, Silicon Investor--not since the 1920s has there been such an intense fascination with the U.S. stock market. For an increasing number of Americans, logging on to Yahoo! Finance is a habit more precious than that morning cup of joe (as thousands of SBUX and YHOO shareholders know too well). Yet while the market continues to go higher, many of us can't get Alan Greenspan's famous line out of our heads. In Irrational Exuberance, Yale economics professor Robert J. Shiller examines this public fascination with stocks and sees a combination of factors that have driven stocks higher, including the rise of the Internet, 401(k) plans, increased coverage by the popular media of financial news, overly optimistic cheerleading by analysts and other pundits, the decline of inflation, and the rise of the mutual fund industry. He writes: "Perceived long-term risk is down.... Emotions and heightened attention to the market create a desire to get into the game. Such is irrational exuberance today in the United States."
By history's yardstick, Shiller believes this market is grossly overvalued, and the factors that have conspired to create and amplify this event--the baby-boom effect, the public infatuation with the Internet, and media interest--will most certainly abate. He fears that too many individuals and institutions have come to view stocks as their only investment vehicle, and that investors should consider looking beyond stocks as a way to diversify and hedge against the inevitable downturn. This is a serious and well-researched book that should read like a Stephen King novel to anyone who has staked his or her future on the market's continued success. --Harry C. Edwards [via]
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Jim Cramer's Mad Money: Watch TV, Get Rich
by James J. Cramer, Cliff Mason

ISBN 1416537902 (1-4165-3790-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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Jim Cramer's Real Money: Sane Investing In An Insane World
by Robert Bender, Jim Cramer

ISBN 0743224892 (0-7432-2489-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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Liar's Poker
by Michael Lewis

ISBN 0393027503 (0-393-02750-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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The bestselling and hilarious book that blew the doors off Wall Street's boardrooms and introduced the world to the writing of Michael Lewis.
In this shrewd and wickedly funny book, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through a powerful investment bank. From an unlikely beginning (art history at Princeton?) he rose in two short years from Salomon Brothers trainee to Geek (the lowest form of life on the trading floor) to Big Swinging Dick, the most dangerous beast in the jungle, a bond salesman who could turn over millions of dollars' worth of doubtful bonds with just one call.

With the eye and ear of a born storyteller, Michael Lewis shows us how things really worked on Wall Street. In the Salomon training program a roomful of aspirants is stunned speechless by the vitriolic profanity of the Human Piranha; out on the trading floor, bond traders throw telephones at the heads of underlings and Salomon chairman Gutfreund challenges his chief trader to a hand of liar's poker for one million dollars; around the world in London, Tokyo, and New York, bright young men like Michael Lewis, connected by telephones and computer terminals, swap gross jokes and find retail buyers for the staggering debt of individual companies or whole countries.

The bond traders, wearing greed and ambition and badges of honor, might well have swaggered straight from the pages of Bonfire of the Vanities. But for all their outrageous behavior, they were in fact presiding over enormous changes in the world economy. Lewis's job, simply described, was to transfer money, in the form of bonds, from those outside America who saved to those inside America who consumed. In doing so, he generated tens of millions of dollars for Salomon Brothers, and earned for himself a ringside seat on the greatest financial spectacle of the decade: the leveraging of America. [via]
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Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
by Michael Lewis

ISBN 0140143459 (0-14-014345-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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In fiction there was Bonfire of the Vanities; in reality, there is Liar's Poker--the fascinating insider's account of what really happens on Wall Street. This irreverent and hilarious birds-eye view of Wall Street's heyday will appeal to anyone intrigued by the allure of million dollar deals. Now in trade paper. First serial to Manhattan Inc. [via]
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Liars Poker Rising Through the Wreckage/International Edition
by Michael Lewis

ISBN 0140143440 (0-14-014344-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
by Al Franken

ISBN 1594130388 (1-59413-038-8)
Softcover, Large Print Pr

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Having previously dissected the factual inaccuracies of a single bellicose talk show host in Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, Al Franken takes his fight to a larger foe: President George W. Bush, the Bush Administration, Ann Coulter, Bill OReilly, and scores of other conservatives whom, he says, are playing loose with the facts. It's a lot of ground to cover, as evidenced by the 43 chapters in Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, but the results are often entertaining and insightful. Franken occupies a unique place in the modern political dialogue as perhaps the media's only comedy writer and performer who is also a Harvard fellow as well as a liberal political commentator. This unique and vaguely lonely position lends a charming quixotic quality to adventures such as a tense encounter with the Fox News staff at the National Press Club, a challenge to fisticuffs with National Review Editor Rich Lowry, and an oddly sweet admissions visit to ultra-conservative Bob Jones University (with a young research assistant posing as his son when Franken's real-life son refuses to participate in the charade). Less useful are comic book dramatizations of "Supply Side Jesus" and a fictitious Vietnam War story featuring the numerous righties who, Franken intimates, improperly avoided service. And Franken's criticisms of conservative talk show hosts Sean Hannity, OReilly, and columnist Coulter, while admirable in their attention to detail, fail to shed much new light on people who have built careers on broad arguments and relentless self-aggrandizement. But Franken is at his best, and most compellingly readable, when he backs off the wackiness and the personal grudges and writes about more personal matters such as the political circus surrounding the memorial service of the late Senator Paul Wellstone. But even on these more serious topics, Franken's wit is still present and, in fact, grows sharper. In a time when much political discourse is composed of rage and shouting, it's refreshing that Al Franken is able to shout in a witty manner. --John Moe [via]
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The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel And the Rise of Modern Finance
by Dan Rottenberg

ISBN 081221966X (0-8122-1966-X)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

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He tamed the market's bulls and bears. "He was the best friend I have ever had in every way."J. P. Morgan

It was the height of the Gilded Age and J. Pierpont Morgan controlled the fate of railroads, corporations, and governments. The wealthy and influential were said to tremble before his blinding intellect and intimidating gaze, yet he deferred to one man: Anthony J. Drexel. Drexelwhose name is familiar today only through the university he founded and his recently canonized niece and protegee, Katharinewas the most influential financier of the nineteenth century.

The second son of an Austrian emigre, Anthony Drexel (1826-1893) soon established himself as the preeminent financial mind in the Philadelphia currency brokerage his father began in 1838. Shunning publicity, self-promotion, and high-profile public accolades (he declined President Ulysses S. Grant's invitation to become Secretary of the Treasury), Drexel initiated a partnership with J. P. Morgan and his father, Junius, that became the most powerful financial combination of its age.

At a time when the United States did not have a central bank, the government as well as large-scale commercial ventures relied on financiers to raise the enormous sums of money necessary to build railroads, construct factories, and fight major wars. With branches and partnerships in London, Paris, Chicago, and New York, all benefiting from their leader's reputation for impeccable integrity, Drexel's firms were able to steer American business through the most extraordinary long-term economic growth of any nation in world history, as well as through four devastating depressions, an enlightening lesson in the cyclical nature of the U.S. economy.

Drexel and his firm quietly pioneered many of the financial and business strategies that we now take for granted, such as trading national currencies, guaranteeing credit for travelers abroad, rewarding workers based on individual initiative, and offering "sweat equity" to deserving employees who could not afford to buy stock. By cultivating Morgan's self-confidence and allowing his younger business partner to become the public face for the firm, Drexel was able to avoid attention and, instead, nurture his extended family.

Today, Anthony J. Drexel's influence and accomplishments are mostly forgotten or credited to others, but after decades of detective work and careful research, Dan Rottenberg has succeeded in writing the first biography of this exceptionally influential and elusive man. Since Drexel gave no interviews, kept no diaries, held no public offices, and destroyed most of his personal papers, Rottenberg had painstakingly to track down every reference and anecdote he could find and, in the process, discovered 150 previously unknown letters and cables in Drexel's hand. Drexel believed that there is no limit to what one can accomplish if one doesn't mind who gets the credit, but as The Man Who Made Wall Street shows, the balance has finally been paid in full.
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Masters of the Universe: Winning Strategies of America's Greatest Deal Makers
by Daniel J. Kadlec, Wayne H. Huizenga

ISBN 088730933X (0-88730-933-X)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers

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Memoirs of an Invisible Man
by H.F. Saint

ISBN 0896218171 (0-89621-817-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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Merchants of Debt: Kkr and the Mortgaging of American Business
by George Anders

ISBN 1587981254 (1-58798-125-4)
Softcover, Beard Books Inc

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Minding Mr. Market : Ten Years on Wall Street with Grant's Interest Rate Observer
by James Grant

ISBN 0812924843 (0-8129-2484-3)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group

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The Money Machine: How Kkr Manufactured Power And Profits
by Sarah Bartlett

ISBN 1587982498 (1-58798-249-8)
Softcover, Beard Books Inc

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Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle
by John Rolfe, Peter Troob

ISBN 0446676950 (0-446-67695-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub

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A Not-So-Tender Offer: An Insider's Look at Mergers and Their Consequences
by Isadore Barmash

ISBN 1587981718 (1-58798-171-8)
Softcover, Beard Books Inc

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This is a reprint of a previously published work. It deals with an insider's look at mergers and their consequences. [via]
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Panic on Wall Street: A History of America's Financial Disasters
by Robert Sobel

ISBN 1893122468 (1-893122-46-8)
Softcover, Beard Books Inc

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The financial panics analyzed in this book illustrate the complexity of such events and that the causes are varied: political, military, economic, and even psychological. [via]
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The Plunderers
by Edwin Lefevre

ISBN 159605476X (1-59605-476-X)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc

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The Predators' Ball
by Connie Bruck

ISBN 067161780X (0-671-61780-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders
by Connie Bruck

ISBN 0140120904 (0-14-012090-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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During the '80s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham created the corporate raiders. He was the billionaire Junk Bond King. But, in the corner stood the U.S. District Attorney waiting to file criminal and racketeering charges. [via]
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Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929
by Maury Klein

ISBN 0195158016 (0-19-515801-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The first major history of the Crash in over a decade, Rainbow's End tells the story of the stock market collapse in a colorful, swift-moving narrative that blends a vivid portrait of the 1920s with an intensely gripping account of Wall Street's greatest catastrophe.
The book offers a vibrant picture of a world full of plungers, powerful bankers, corporate titans, millionaire brokers, and buoyantly optimistic stock market bulls. We meet Sunshine Charley Mitchell, head of the National City Bank, powerful financiers Jack Morgan and Jacob Schiff, Wall Street manipulators such as the legendary Jesse Livermore, and the lavish-living Billy Durant, founder of General Motors. As Klein follows the careers of these men, he shows us how the financial house of cards gradually grew taller, as the irrational exuberance of an earlier age gripped America and convinced us that the market would continue to rise forever. Then, in October 1929, came a "perfect storm"-like convergence of factors that shook Wall Street to its foundations. We relive Black Thursday, when police lined Wall Street, brokers grew hysterical, customers "bellowed like lunatics," and the ticker tape fell hours behind. This is followed by the even worse Bloody Tuesday, when an irrational desire to sell at any price gripped the market and even blue chip stocks plummeted precariously.
This compelling history of the Crash--the first to follow the market closely for the two years leading up to the disaster--illuminates a major turning point in our history. [via]
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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
by Edwin Lefevre, Roger Lowenstein

ISBN 0471770884 (0-471-77088-4)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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Stock investing is a relatively recent phenomenon and the inventory of true classics is somewhat slim. When asked, people in the know will always list books by Benjamin Graham, Burton G. Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street, and Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings by Philip A. Fisher. You'll know you're getting really good advice if they also mention Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre.
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is the thinly disguised biography of Jesse Livermore, a remarkable character who first started speculating in New England bucket shops at the turn of the century. Livermore, who was banned from these shady operations because of his winning ways, soon moved to Wall Street where he made and lost his fortune several times over. What makes this book so valuable are the observations that Lefèvre records about investing, speculating, and the nature of the market itself. For example:
"It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight! It is no trick at all to be right on the market. You always find lots of early bulls in bull markets and early bears in bear markets. I've known many men who were right at exactly the right time, and began buying or selling stocks when prices were at the very level which should show the greatest profit. And their experience invariably matched mine--that is, they made no real money out of it. Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon."
If you've ever spent weekends and nights puzzling over whether to buy, sell, or hold a position in whatever investment--be it stock, bonds, or pork bellies, you'll be glad that you read this book. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is full of lessons that are as relevant today as they were in 1923 when the book was first published. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards [via]
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The Running Of The Bulls: Inside The Cutthroat Race From Wharton To Wall Street
by Nicole Ridgway

ISBN 1592401252 (1-59240-125-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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Serpent on the Rock
by Kurt Eichenwald

ISBN 0887308031 (0-88730-803-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Serpent on the Rock: Crime, Betrayal and the Terrible Secrets of Prudential Bache
by Kurt Eichenwald

ISBN 0887307205 (0-88730-720-5)
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Stocks for the Long Run: A Guide to Selecting Markets for Long-Term Growth
by Jeremy J. Siegel

ISBN 1556238045 (1-55623-804-5)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill

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If anyone told you that investing in the stock market was the safest investment you could make, you might raise an eyebrow. However, if Jeremy Siegel tells you this, prepare to be convinced. Siegel's book, Stocks for the Long Run, is a comprehensive and highly readable history of the stock market that dramatically makes the case for long-term investing in stocks.
In summing up his approach to investing, Siegel writes, "Poor investment strategy, whether it is for lack of diversification, pursuing hot stocks, or attempting to time the market, often stems from the investor's belief that it is necessary to beat the market to do well in the market. Nothing is further from the truth. The principle of this book is that through time the after-inflation returns on a well-diversified portfolio of common stocks have not only exceeded that of fixed income assets but have actually done so with less risk. Which stocks you own is secondary to whether you own stocks, especially if you maintain a balanced portfolio."
Stocks for the Long Run considers subjects as diverse as the history of the various market indices and what makes for a business cycle to contrarian indicators and the utility of 200-day moving averages. If you've just come into investing in the last few years and feel the need for a solid and comprehensive text about the market, Stocks for the Long Run is probably the best primer available. It also works as an excellent reference for seasoned investors and anyone else interested in how the market works. --Harry C. Edwards [via]
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Understanding Wall Street
by Jeffrey B. Little, Lucien Rhodes

ISBN 0830604790 (0-8306-0479-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill

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One of history's top-selling investment guides--800,000 copies sold!--is now updated for a new generation of investors Praise for previous editions of Understanding Wall Street: "One of those rare publications that delivers exactly what it promises . . .consistently good." --Barron's "Among the best for the novice investor." --Los Angeles Times "A good practical education on the stock market." --Business Opportunities Digest Over the past quarter century, Understanding Wall Street has helped investors at every level understand exactly how the stock market works, and how they can build strong portfolios while limiting their exposure to risk. Now completely updated to help investors prosper in the new, no-limits market environment, the "little green book" includes: Two all-new chapters, updated charts and graphs, and nearly 40 percent updated, revised, or new material Strategies for uncovering valuable investment information on the Internet Analysis and explanation of the recent market crash, and how to avoid similar disasters
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Understanding Wall Street: A Bound Volume of the Wall Street Library
by Jeffrey B. Little, Lucien Rhodes

ISBN 0897090101 (0-89709-010-1)
Hardcover, Liberty Pub Co

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Unexpected Returns: Understanding Secular Stock Market Cycles
by Ed Easterling

ISBN 1879384620 (1-879384-62-0)
Hardcover, Cypress House

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Wall Street: A History
by Charles Geisst

ISBN 0195170601 (0-19-517060-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The comprehensive Wall Street: A History, by Manhattan College finance professor Charles Geisst, is a meticulous examination of the economic cycles, legendary financiers, and monumental transactions that have shaped the fiscal structure of the United States. The sweeping tale ranges from Revolutionary War days to the California Gold Rush, from the Civil War to the Depression, and from the great 1950s bull market to the ongoing 1990s boom. Geisst's narrative is pinned to the relationship between finance and government, and tracks the latter's increasing involvement in the former to show where matters stand today. [via]
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The Wall Street Journal on Accounting
by Jonathan B. Schiff, Lee Berton

ISBN 155623225X (1-55623-225-X)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill

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Wall Street Versus America: The Rampant Greed and Dishonesty That Imperil Your Investments
by Gary Weiss

ISBN 1591840945 (1-59184-094-5)
Hardcover, Portfolio

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Wall Street Words
by David Logan Scott

ISBN 0395467772 (0-395-46777-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms for Today's Investor
by David L. Scott

ISBN 0618176519 (0-618-17651-9)
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What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
by Jim Paul

ISBN 0963579495 (0-9635794-9-5)
Hardcover, Infrared Pr

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When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
by Roger Lowenstein

ISBN 0375758259 (0-375-75825-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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On September 23, 1998, the boardroom of the New York Fed was a tense place. Around the table sat the heads of every major Wall Street bank, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, and representatives from numerous European banks, each of whom had been summoned to discuss a highly unusual prospect: rescuing what had, until then, been the envy of them all, the extraordinarily successful bond-trading firm of Long-Term Capital Management. Roger Lowenstein's When Genius Failed is the gripping story of the Fed's unprecedented move, the incredible heights reached by LTCM, and the firm's eventual dramatic demise.
Lowenstein, a financial journalist and author of Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, examines the personalities, academic experts, and professional relationships at LTCM and uncovers the layers of numbers behind its roller-coaster ride with the precision of a skilled surgeon. The fund's enigmatic founder, John Meriwether, spent almost 20 years at Salomon Brothers, where he formed its renowned Arbitrage Group by hiring academia's top financial economists. Though Meriwether left Salomon under a cloud of the SEC's wrath, he leapt into his next venture with ease and enticed most of his former Salomon hires--and eventually even David Mullins, the former vice chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve--to join him in starting a hedge fund that would beat all hedge funds.
LTCM began trading in 1994, after completing a road show that, despite the Ph.D.-touting partners' lack of social skills and their disdainful condescension of potential investors who couldn't rise to their intellectual level, netted a whopping $1.25 billion. The fund would seek to earn a tiny spread on thousands of trades, "as if it were vacuuming nickels that others couldn't see," in the words of one of its Nobel laureate partners, Myron Scholes. And nickels it found. In its first two years, LTCM earned $1.6 billion, profits that exceeded 40 percent even after the partners' hefty cuts. By the spring of 1996, it was holding $140 billion in assets. But the end was soon in sight, and Lowenstein's detailed account of each successively worse month of 1998, culminating in a disastrous August and the partners' subsequent panicked moves, is riveting.
The arbitrageur's world is a complicated one, and it might have served Lowenstein well to slow down and explain in greater detail the complex terms of the more exotic species of investment flora that cram the book's pages. However, much of the intrigue of the Long-Term story lies in its dizzying pace (not to mention the dizzying amounts of money won and lost in the fund's short lifespan). Lowenstein's smooth, conversational but equally urgent tone carries it along well. The book is a compelling read for those who've always wondered what lay behind the Fed's controversial involvement with the LTCM hedge-fund debacle. --S. Ketchum [via]
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The Winner's Circle: How 30 Financial Advisors Became the Best in the Business
by R.J. Shook, Launny Steffens

ISBN 0972162208 (0-9721622-0-8)
Hardcover, Horizon Pub Group

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by Bret Easton Ellis

ISBN 2020253801 (2-02-025380-1)
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Patrick Bateman est un jeune homme riche, beau et intelligent. Un golden boy de Wall Street à qui tout réussit. Il est par ailleurs parfaitement au fait des techniques de nettoyage et désincrustage de la peau les plus efficaces, il s'applique les meilleures crèmes pour le visage, ne porte que des vêtements de grands couturiers, utilise les derniers gadgets technologiques et passe ses soirées au Tunnel, la boîte branchée du moment. Bien sûr, tous ses amis sont comme lui.
La seule différence, c'est qu'en plus Patrick Bateman viole, torture et tue. Mais il ne ressent jamais rien. Juste une légère contrariété lorsque ses scénarii ne se déroulent pas exactement comme prévu. À sa sortie en 1991, le roman d'Ellis suscita une vive émotion, aussi bien à cause de ses scènes d'horreur décrites quasi cliniquement que de son principal personnage, Bateman, symbole de la réussite économique, enfant prodige travesti en tueur sadique et immoral. Il faut dire qu'Ellis s'attaque de front à tous les excès de superficialité de l'Occident contemporain : sexe, culte du corps, de la richesse et de la jeunesse. Une entreprise de destruction commencée très tôt avec son premier roman Moins que zéro écrit alors qu'il avait 22 ans et que l'on retrouve dans Glamorama. Bret Easton Ellis ou l'art de mettre de l'acide sur les plaies béantes de la société. --Stellio Paris [via]
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