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The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s Hardcover - 1999

by John Brooks; Foreword by Michael Lewis


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Die 60er Jahre waren die spekulativste ra der Wall Street. Diese Jahre waren geprgt von Wachstum und Performance (Wertentwicklung). In diesem strmischen Umfeld war die Schar der Kleinanleger sehr erfolgreich und ihre Zahl wuchs stndig; die verheerenden Crashs der 70er Jahre jedoch setzten dieser Entwicklung ein jhes Ende. Brooks hat eine Chronik dieser ra verfa t - eine abenteuerliche und humorvolle Geschichte mit einer Mischung aus solider Reportage nach Art der New York Times und dem lockeren Erzhlstil des New Yorker. Hier lernt der Leser so nebenbei alles ber die Boomjahre der 60er und die Kurseinbrche der 70er, wobei er als Anleger daran erinnert wird, da die Wall Street von jeher ein Quell von Hoffnung, Chaos und bertreibung ist. (09/99)

From the rear cover

"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."
--From the Foreword by Michael Lewis

The 1960s bull market was a wild time of unbridled growth and stellar performance. It remains a pivotal era in American financial history, a time of corporate gunslingers, mutual funds, new-issue stocks, Chinese money, and the conglomerates. But it is also a cautionary tale of Wall Street for today's investor, chronicling the personalities, markets, events, and trends that drove stocks up throughout the 1960s and made millionaires of many--until the inevitable crashes in the 1970s.

Considered a classic among finance classics, The Go-Go Years is the harrowing and humorous story of the "go-go" growth stocks of the 1960s. Their meteoric rise caused a multitude of small investors to thrive for nearly a decade. John Brooks's award-winning and inimitable style brings to life the people, places, and extraordinary circumstances that changed the course of the stock market forever. It was a time when greed drove the market and fast money was being made and lost in the surge and plunge of growth and performance stocks. Included are the dramatic stories of such high-profile personalities as H. Ross Perot who lost $450 million in one day, Saul Steinberg's grandiose attempt to take over Chemical Bank, and the self-destructive fall of America's "Last Gatsby," Eddie Gilbert.

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."

From the jacket flap

"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."
--From the Foreword by Michael Lewis

The 1960s bull market was a wild time of unbridled growth and stellar performance. It remains a pivotal era in American financial history, a time of corporate gunslingers, mutual funds, new-issue stocks, Chinese money, and the conglomerates. But it is also a cautionary tale of Wall Street for today's investor, chronicling the personalities, markets, events, and trends that drove stocks up throughout the 1960s and made millionaires of many--until the inevitable crashes in the 1970s.

Considered a classic among finance classics, The Go-Go Years is the harrowing and humorous story of the "go-go" growth stocks of the 1960s. Their meteoric rise caused a multitude of small investors to thrive for nearly a decade. John Brooks's award-winning and inimitable style brings to life the people, places, and extraordinary circumstances that changed the course of the stock market forever. It was a time when greed drove the market and fast money was being made and lost in the surge and plunge of growth and performance stocks. Included are the dramatic stories of such high-profile personalities as H. Ross Perot who lost $450 million in one day, Saul Steinberg's grandiose attempt to take over Chemical Bank, and the self-destructive fall of America's "Last Gatsby," Eddie Gilbert.

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."

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  • Title The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s
  • Author John Brooks; Foreword by Michael Lewis
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley
  • Date 1999-09-21
  • ISBN 9780471357551 / 0471357553
  • Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.33 x 6.34 x 0.99 in (23.70 x 16.10 x 2.51 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
  • Library of Congress subjects Investments - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99033867
  • Dewey Decimal Code 332.642

About the author

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.
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