is about the only writer around who combines a thorough knowledge of finance with the ability to perceive behind the dance of numbers high pure moral melodrama on the themes of possession domination and belonging. and making so much material easily digestible for the uninitiated. The Go-Go Years is not to be read in the usual manner of Wall Street classics. New York Times Brookss great contribution is his synthesis of all the elements that made the 1960s the most volatile in Wall Street history. The Go-Go Years audiobook, by John Brooks. New York Review of Books Please dont take The GoGo Years too much for granted: as effortlessly as it seems to fly it is nonetheless an unusually complex and thoughtful work of social history. Praise for The GoGo Years Those for whom the stock market is mostly a spectator sport will relish the books verve color and memorable oneliners. Ross Perot who lost $450 million in one day Saul Steinbergs attempt to take over Chemical Bank and the fall of Americas Last Gatsby Eddie Gilbert. Included are the stories of such highprofile personalities as H. It was a time when greed drove the market and fast money was being made and lost as the gogo stocks surged and plunged. From the Foreword by Michael Lewis The GoGo Years is the harrowing and humorous story of the growth stocks of the 1960s and how their meteoric rise caused a multitude of small investors to thrive until the devastating market crashes in the 1970s. You read it because it is a wonderful description of the way things were in a different time and place. You do not read this book to see our present situation reenacted in the past with only the names changed. The GoGo Years The GoGo Years is not to be read in the usual manner of Wall Street classics. John Wiley & Sons Inc The Go-Go Years by John Brooks
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