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Title: Wall Street People: True Stories of Today's Masters and Moguls by Charles D. Ellis ISBN: 0-471-23809-0 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 02 April, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wall Street People: True Stories of Today's Masters and Mogu
Comment: A seasoned Wall Street investment manager gathers a collection of profiles of the influential financial luminaries of the investment world. Drawn from magazines, colleagues' accounts, newspapers, and other sources, the profiles examine the personal and professional lives of these powerful characters and how they earned their fame or notoriety.
Rating: 2
Summary: Too brief a bibliography, too historical a trading or inv bk
Comment: I understoodd that it would be stupid to expect something close to the "Market Wizard" standard from a 342 page book covering over 80 big names intriguing enough for 180 more books. However, I did expect a summary or two about the life, trading or investment methods of the people covered in the book. The passage devoted to Bernard Baruch is a rare exception to the above. A pity that it was mostly copy and paste from the work of other authors. Even worse, the content is not timely. For e.g., the article of Robertson was written nearly a decade before the Tiger Fund got drown in Russia. It would be much better if the author had written several volumes and covered more and timely of each guru.
Rating: 4
Summary: Insightful!
Comment: Writing with James R. Vertin, author Charles D. Ellis presents brief profiles of 85 Wall Street leaders who contributed to the growth of the world's major financial marketplace. The authors divide these individuals - all men, which tells a tale right there - into four slightly arbitrary groups: masters of investing, movers and shakers, business builders, and wisemen and rascals. The collection is drawn from the other writers' pieces about these men, and includes occasional articles the featured financiers wrote themselves. Apart from a few brief notes about some patterns that the author observed, these excerpts from various sources stand alone, with no overarching theme or exposition. We [...] keenly feel the lack of a few analytical essays that might have pulled the collection together and integrated it thematically, but even so, this serves as a useful research tool and an interesting introduction to a unique confluence of powerful men.
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Title: Capital: The Story of Long-Term Investment Excellence by Charles D. Ellis ISBN: 0471567043 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 23 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Wall Street People: True Stories of the Great Barons of Finance, Vol. 2 by Charles D. Ellis, James R. Vertin ISBN: 0471274283 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 10 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Bull! : A History of the Boom, 1982-1999: What drove the Breakneck Market--and What Every Investor Needs to Know About Financial Cycles by Maggie Mahar ISBN: 006056413X Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Winning the Loser's Game by Charles D. Ellis, John J. Brennan ISBN: 0071387676 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 14 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Last Partnerships: Inside the Great Wall Street Dynasties by Charles R. Geisst ISBN: 0071369996 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 21 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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