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Title: Eyewitness to Wall Street: 400 Years of Dreamers, Schemers, Busts, and Booms by David Colbert ISBN: 0767906608 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent! A must read for any investor
Comment: I completed this 369 page "story book" in two days. It had been so interesting that I just could not put it down.
It's no exaggeration to regard it as a story book. Somehow the reality is more harsh and crueler than fictitious TV drama and movies, and the history of the investment world is surely no exception.
Back to the book. This is in fact an excellent collection of writings from books, journals amd newspapers of different witnesses to the author's selection of major debacles of the past four centuries. There are twelve parts of unequal period, with a timeline of critical incidents in the beginning of each part, followed by selected witness reports as mentioned above. Certainly, not everything could be accounted detailedly (so I would like to recommend "Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor", a book that dug deeper but not as wide) but readers certainly would have a very correct idea of what went wrong.
As a CFA charterholder (not yet, passed all three levels of exam but not paid the fees), I strongly recommend AIMR to put this book into the required list of reading to warn its members of the limitation of the financial techniques or theories or calculations or integrity stuff we try to preach. Anyway, a must read for anyone, especially serious players!
p.s. One minor drawback: Soros was not there. He should have been.
Rating: 5
Summary: see the brilliance of wall street's greats
Comment: this book gives you a window look into the brilliance of wall streets finest players , as well as the big scammers. this book gave me a better knowledge of how the market works and how the economic cycle is always repeating itself. it gave you a nice history into how wall street was established and how it evolved into the market it is today.
Rating: 5
Summary: Highly Recommended!
Comment: Editor David Colbert collected a multitude of printed source material - diaries, private letters, memoirs and articles - that spans 400 years, and, as the title promises, provides plenty of accounts from eyewitnesses to Wall Street. Organized chronologically, the book also includes Colbert's timelines and his original introductions for each piece. Divided into sections that reflect every era, the book is an insightful and often hilarious romp through financial history. We [...] recommend this book to all readers - there's something here for everyone, even if you don't think you give a hoot about the stock market. Colbert's collection is a sweeping, unusual look at social, economic, political and cultural history.
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Title: 100 Years of Wall Street by Charles R. Geisst, Richard A. Grasso ISBN: 0071356193 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 30 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Wall Street: A History by Charles R. Geisst ISBN: 0195130863 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power: 1653-2000 by John Gordon ISBN: 0743200438 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith ISBN: 0395859999 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 30 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor ISBN: 0452281806 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 05 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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