Description
Book SynopsisThe Go-Go Years "The Go-Go Years is not to be read in the usual manner of Wall Street classics. You do not read this book to see our present situation reenacted in the past, with only the names changed. You read it because it is a wonderful description of the way things were in a different time and place.
Table of ContentsForeword vii
I Climax: The Day Henry Ross Perot Lost $450 Million 1
II Fair Exchange: The Year the Amex Delisted the Old Guard Romans 26
III The Last Gatsby: Recessional for Edward M Gilbert 55
IV Palmy Days and Low Rumblings: Early Warnings Along Wall Street 81
V Northern Exposure: Early Warnings Along Bay Street 104
VI The Birth of Go-Go: The Rise of a Proper Chinese Bostonian 127
VII The Conglomerateurs: Corporate Chutzpah and Creative Accounting 150
VIII The Enormous Back Room: Drugs, Fails, and Chaos Among the Clerks 182
IX Go-Go at High Noon: The View from Trinity Church 206
X Confrontation: Steinberg/Leasco vs Renchard/Chemical Bank 227
XI Revelry Before Waterloo: The Time of the Great Garbage Market 260
XII The 1970 Crash: To the Edge of the Abyss 291
XIII Saving Graces: The Invisible Samaritans of Wall Street 311
XIV The Go-Go Years 348
Notes on Sources 358
Index 364
