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The 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 Contents

Foreword 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

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      Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Published 11 November 1999
      ISBN-13 9780471357544
      978-0471357544
      ISBN-10 0471357545
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      Finance and accounting Investment and securities

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The 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 Contents

      Foreword 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

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