{"product_id":"the-go-go-years-isbn-9780471357551","title":"The Go-Go Years","description":"The Go-Go Years\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The Go-Go Years is not to be read in the usual manner ofWall Street classics. You do not read this book to see our presentsituation reenacted in the past, with only the names changed. Youread it because it is a wonderful description of the way thingswere in a different time and place.\"\u003cbr\u003e --From the Foreword by Michael Lewis\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Go-Go Years is the harrowing and humorous story ofthe growth stocks of the 1960s and how their meteoric rise caused amultitude of small investors to thrive until the devastating marketcrashes in the 1970s. It was a time when greed drove the market andfast money was being made and lost as the \"go-go\" stocks surged andplunged. Included are the stories of such high-profilepersonalities as H. Ross Perot who lost $450 million in one day,Saul Steinberg's attempt to take over Chemical Bank, and the fallof America's \"Last Gatsby,\" Eddie Gilbert.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Praise for The Go-Go Years\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Those for whom the stock market is mostly a spectator sportwill relish the book's verve, color, and memorableone-liners.\"\u003cbr\u003e --New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Please don't take The Go-Go Years too much for granted:as effortlessly as it seems to fly, it is nonetheless an unusuallycomplex and thoughtful work of social history.\"\u003cbr\u003e --New York Times\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Brooks's great contribution is his synthesis of all theelements that made the 1960s the most volatile in Wall Streethistory . and making so much material easily digestible for theuninitiated.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Brooks ... is about the only writer around who combines athorough knowledge of finance with the ability to perceive behindthe dance of numbers 'high, pure, moral melodrama on the themes ofpossession, domination, and belonging.'\"\u003cbr\u003e --TimeDie 60er Jahre waren die spekulativste Ära der Wall Street. Diese Jahre waren geprägt von Wachstum und Performance (Wertentwicklung). In diesem stürmischen Umfeld war die Schar der Kleinanleger sehr erfolgreich und ihre Zahl wuchs ständig; die verheerenden Crashs der 70er Jahre jedoch setzten dieser Entwicklung ein jähes Ende. Brooks hat eine Chronik dieser Ära verfaßt - eine abenteuerliche und humorvolle Geschichte mit einer Mischung aus solider Reportage nach Art der New York Times und dem lockeren Erzählstil des New Yorker. Hier lernt der Leser so nebenbei alles über die Boomjahre der 60er und die Kurseinbrüche der 70er, wobei er als Anleger daran erinnert wird, daß die Wall Street von jeher ein Quell von Hoffnung, Chaos und Übertreibung ist. (09\/99) Climax: The Day Henry Ross Perot Lost $450 Million.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Fair Exchange: The Year the Amex Delisted the Old GuardRomans.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Last Gatsby: Recessional for Edward M. Gilbert.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Palmy Days and Low Rumblings: Early Warnings Along WallStreet.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Northern Exposure: Early Warnings Along Bay Street.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Birth of Go-Go: The Rise of a Proper Chinese Bostonian.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Conglomerateurs: Corporate Chutzpah and CreativeAccounting.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Enormous Back Room: Drugs, Fails, and Chaos Among theClerks.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Go-Go at High Noon: The View from Trinity Church.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Confrontation: Steinberg\/Leasco vs. Renchard\/Chemical Bank.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Revelry Before Waterloo: The Time of the Great GarbageMarket.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The 1970 Crash: To the Edge of the Abyss.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Saving Graces: The Invisible Samaritans of Wall Street.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Go-Go Years.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Notes on Sources.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Index. \u003cb\u003eJOHN BROOKS\u003c\/b\u003e was an award-winning \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e staff writer and author of several critically acclaimed explorations of business and Wall Street, including \u003ci\u003eOnce in Golconda\u003c\/i\u003e (a Wiley Investment Classic), \u003ci\u003eThe Games Players\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBusiness Adventures\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Fate of the Edsel\u003c\/i\u003e.  \"\u003ci\u003eThe Go-Go Years\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eFrom the Foreword by Michael Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsidered a classic among finance classics, \u003ci\u003eThe Go-Go Years\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYale Law Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Go-Go Years\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"Those for whom the stock market is mostly a spectator sport will relish the book's verve, color, and memorable one-liners.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Please don't take \u003ci\u003eThe Go-Go Years\u003c\/i\u003e too much for granted: as effortlessly as it seems to fly, it is nonetheless an unusually complex and thoughtful work of social history.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Brooks's great contribution is his synthesis of all the elements that made the 1960s the most volatile in Wall Street history . . . and making so much material easily digestible for the uninitiated.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Brooks . . . 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.'\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990241853669,"sku":"NP9780471357551","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780471357551.jpg?v=1761787031","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-go-go-years-isbn-9780471357551","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}