Introduction. Chapter 1: The Yankee Banking Houses: Clark Dodge and Jay Cooke. Chapter 2: "Our Crowd": The Seligmans, Lehman Brothers, and Kuhn Loeb. Chapter 3: White Shoes and Racehorses: Brown Brothers Harriman and August Belmont. Chapter 4: Crashed and Absorbed: Kidder Peabody and Dillon Read. Chapter 5: Corner of Broad and Wall: J. P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley. Chapter 6: Corner of Wall and Main: Merrill Lynch and E. F. Hutton. Chapter 7: Unraveled by Greed: Salomon Brothers and Drexel Burnham. Chapter 8: The Last Holdouts: Goldman Sachs and Lazard Freres.
Charles R. Geisst, professor of finance at Manhattan College, is the author of ten books including Wall Street: A History (1997) which was a New York Times Business Bestseller, selection of the History Book Club and the Book of the Month Club, and on the Canadian Business Bestseller list. In addition, Mr. Geisst is being considered as a featured expert on the subject of Wall Street for a television documentary currently being developed by Peter Guber (Columbia Studios). One of his other recent books, Investment Banking in the Financial System (Prentice Hall, 1995) was recently published in Beijing in a Chinese language edition. Geisst has been a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg Television, and Nippon TV.
"Geisst creditably describes the forces at work in the creation of capital, providing some sociological context through ethnicity and gender issues."
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