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Wall Street People: True Stories of Today's Masters and Moguls

Charles D. Ellis Wiley 2001 The first complete Who's Who in the history of the world's best-known financial street Charles D. Ellis and James R. Vertin have crafted a window on Wall Street that investors won't want to miss. These two Wall Street insiders provide detailed profiles of dozens of the most fascinating, influential, and talked-about financial luminaries ever to light up the dark and cavernous purlieus of the world's most famous street. Related here are intriguing tales of money won and lost, amazing coups, brazen cons of financial brilliance, and untrammeled greed and blind ambition. This compelling series includes profiles of the biggest names today: Alan Greenspan, Warren Buffett, Larry Tisch, Jim Rogers, Sanford Weill, and George Soros-as well as investment losers like Ivan Boesky and Nicholas Leeson. Charles D. Ellis (Greenwich, CT) is a Managing Partner of Greenwich Associates, the international financial consulting firm. Now fully retired, James R. Vertin (Menlo Park, CA) was a principal of...

Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger

Janet Lowe Wiley Praise For Damn Right! From the author of the bestselling WARREN BUFFETT SPEAKS "Charlie Munger, whose reputation is deep and wide, based on an extraordinary record of brilliantly successful business strategies, sees things that others don?t. There is a method to his mastery and, through this book, we get a chance to learn about this rare individual." ??MICHAEL EISNER, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company "Janet Lowe uncovers the iconoclastic genius and subtle charm behind Charlie Munger?s curmudgeonly facade in this richly woven portrait of our era?s heir to Ben Franklin. With a biographer?s detachment, an historian?s thoroughness, and a financial writer?s common sense, Lowe producesa riveting account of the family, personal, and business life of this idiosyncratically complex and endlessly fascinating figure." ??LAWRENCE A. CUNNINGHAM, Cardozo Law School Author of The Essays of Warren...

Financier: The Biography of Andre Meyer: A Story of Money, Power, and the Reshaping of American Business

Cary Reich Fortune magazine deemed him "the most important investment banker in the Western world." A ferociously energetic, charming, and ruthless businessman, he had, by the age of forty, helped save the foundering auto giant Citroen, established France's first consumer finance company, and been awarded the Legion of Honor. He was a trusted adviser of the Kennedys and an intimate of Lyndon Johnson, William Paley, and Katharine Graham. His numerous business accomplishments included the building or revitalizing of such corporate giants as Avis, Holiday Inns, Warner-Lambert, and Engelhard Minerals & Chemicals. One of the world's savviest individual investors, he amassed a personal fortune of well over $200 million, yet to his dying day never gave up the search for the ultimate buck. Andre Meyer, "The Picasso of Banking," was all this—and much more. A man of seemingly endless contradictions, he was respected and admired by many, scorned and disliked by many others. In this...

Jubilee Jim: From Circus Traveler to Wall Street Rogue: The Remarkable Life Of Colonel James Fisk, Jr. (Legends of Commerce)

Robert H. Fuller Money, speculation and the birth of the US railways. Love, corruption and murder. The life and death of Colonel James Fisk Jr. is a remarkable tale. From his humble beginnings in small-town America of the 1830s and 40s until the time of his death in scandalous circumstances at the age of 37 he had risen to become one of the most notorious and colorful characters in the history of Wall Street. Throughout his flamboyant personal life, Jubilee Jim faced great danger during the Civil War, in the protection of his railway interests and during New York riots of 1871 and in his business career periods of intense excitement such as in his ongoing rivalry with such giants of American business history as Daniel Drew and Cornelius Vanderbilt and in his exploits with Jay Gould during the infamous Black Friday gold scandal. In addition, he also found time to try his hand as a peddler, circus showman, a Civil War profiteer, an adulterous lover, a theatre impresario, a shipping magnate ... and...

F.K. Weyerhaeuser: A Biography

Charles E. Twining Frederick King Weyerhaeuser, eldest male of the Weyerhaeuser lumbering family's third generation, may not have matched his grandfather Frederick in fame or power, but among the progeny none was more widely known and respected-and , within the family, loved-than he was. How his talents and dedication helped make the Weyerhaeuser name synonymous with the lumbering industry and the clan one of the closest knit in the country is this book's focus. This is an intimate, detailed story of F. K. the businessman and patriarch and the life he led with his wife, Vivian O'Gara Weyerhaeuser, and their two daughters on St. Paul's Summit Avenue. Based on company correspondence and records, family letters and reminiscences, and interviews, the book is a unique, behind-the-scenes look at an influential family and its forest products company over half a century. This is the third volume in Charles Twining's biographical history of today's Weyerhaeuser Company.

Money and Power: The History of Business

Howard Means, Howard Means, David Grubin Where there?s greed and ambition you?ll find . . . Money & Power From the pivotal spice trade routes to the streets where merchants sold their wares . . .from the royal court of Spain where a faulty economic plan led to ruin to early American industrial capitals and assembly lines . . . from the fever pitch of Wall Street to the groundbreaking moments in television and motion picture history. CNBC?s acclaimed documentary Money and Power deftly traces the movement of trade, banking, industry, and commerce from East to West, from ancient times to modern. Now this companion book provides an expansive global view of the moguls and dynasties that have defined business in the last millennium. Featuring a Foreword by the documentary?s award-winning creator, David Grubin, Money and Power offers important lessons that are of timeless value?and inspiration for the next generation of groundbreakers and visionaries of business. "You may think a...

Carpet Capital: The Rise of a New Soouth Industry (Economy and Society in the Modern South)

Randall L. Patton, David B. Parker The Dalton area in northwest Georgia dominates carpet production in the United States, manufacturing some 70 percent of the domestic product and priding itself as the carpet capital of the world. Carpet Capital is a story of revolutionary changes that transformed both and industry and a region. Its balanced and candid account details the rise of a homegrown, entrepreneur-driven industry at a time when state and local governments around the South sought to attract capital and technology from outside the region.

From Monopoly to Competition: The Transformations of Alcoa, 1888-1986

George David Smith Over the past century, Alcoa has developed from a small entrepreneurial venture to a giant corporation; from a one-dimensional, owner-managed firm to a complex managerial bureaucracy; from a domestic company to a multinational enterprise. In the process, Alcoa survived a difficult transition from its long-held position as a monopolist (of aluminum production) to its current status as a firm operating in highly competitive international markets. This book presents Alcoa's history, from its beginnings asa speculative venture seeking to exploit an untested technology, through its rise to become the most successful monopoly in American history. By World War II, no other American corporation had developed its industry's markets more dramatically and then dominated them more completely. The book analyzes the undoing of Alcoa's monopoly by war and antitrust, as well as how Alcoa adapted to evolving forms of competition.