The New Crowd: The Changing of the Jewish Guard on Wall Street

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1989. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Compliments card signed by Rehfeld laid in. Review ephemera laid in.. 444 p. Illustrations. Notes. Partial List of People Interviewed. Selected Bibliography. Index. A former award-winning journalist, Judith is the co-author of The New Crowd: The Changing of the Jewish Guard on Wall Street (Little, Brown, 1989). She shifted gears in l998 and worked as a senior associate of the Linda Chester Agency for five years before launching her own agency in 2002. Barry Rehfeld is a writer, editor and teacher. he is the author of "Home Sweet Zero Energy Home" (New Society), a book about energy efficiency and the environment. He is the co-author of "The New Crowd" (Little, Brown), a best-seller about Wall Street power. Going back over the years, he has won the NYSSCPA "Excellence in Financial Journalism" award. I was a senior writer for Institutional Investor, the features editor for American Banker and a reporter-researcher at Time magazine. As a freelancer, he wrote dozens of business stories for The New York Times, as well as feature stories for Esquire, Rolling Stone, Dissent, Film Comment and New York magazines. Judith Ehrlich and Barry Rehfeld examine how a group of dynamic young financial mavericks overtook the great German-Jewish banking families in postwar America to become the preeminent financial power brokers, radically changing the shape of corporate power in America. A detailed social history of the rise of the Jewish entrepreneurs of Wall Street. The colourful characters who run these highly successful firms are described.