The Great Game：The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power, 1653-2000

作者: John Steele Gordon

出版社: Scribner

出版时间: 1999-11

ISBN: 9780684832876

装帧: 精装

开本: 其他

纸张: 其他

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>经济

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For more than two hundred years, fortunes have been made -- and lost -- on Wall Street by men and women playing the great game of capitalism. Many have repeated the mistakes of their forebears, and some have enjoyed similar triumphs. In this gripping and John Steele Gordon was born in New York City in 1944 into a family long associated with the city and its financial community. Both his grandfathers held seats on the New York Stock Exchange. He was educated at Millbrook School and Vanderbilt University, graduating with a B.A. in history in 1966.
After college he worked as a production editor for Harper & Row (now HarperCollins) for six years before leaving to travel, driving a Land-Rover from New York to Tierra del Fuego, a nine-month journey of 39,000 miles.
After returning to New York he served on the staffs of Congressmen Herman Badillo and Robert Garcia. He has been a full-time writer for the last twenty years. His second book, The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street, a history of Wall Street in the 1860's, was published in 1988. His third book, Hamilton's Blessing: the Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debt, was published in 1997. The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power, 1653-2000, was published by Scribner, a Simon and Schuster imprint, in November, 1999. A two-hour special based on The Great Game aired on CNBC on April 24th, 2000. His latest book, a collection of his columns from American Heritage magazine, entitled The Business of America, was published in July, 2001, by Walker. His history of the laying of the Atlantic Cable, A Thread Across the Ocean, was published in June, 2002. His next book, to be published by HarperCollins, is a history of the American economy.
He specializes in business and financial history. He has had articles published in, among others, Forbes, Forbes ASAP, Worth, the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal Op-Ed pages, the Washington Post's Book World and Outlook. He is a contributing editor at American Heritage, where he has written the "Business of America" column since 1989.
In 1991 he traveled to Europe, Africa, North and South America, and Japan with the photographer Bruce Davidson for Schlumberger, Ltd., to create a photo essay called "Schlumberger People," for the company's annual report.
In 1992 he was the co-writer, with Timothy C. Forbes and Steve Forbes, of Happily Ever After?, a video produced by Forbes in honor of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the magazine.
He is a frequent commentator on Marketplace, the daily Public Radio business-news program heard on more than two hundred stations throughout the country. He has appeared on numerous other radio and television shows, including New York: A Documentary Film by Ric Burns, Business Center and Squawk Box on CNBC, and The News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. He was a guest in 2001 on a live, two-hour edition of Booknotes with Brian Lamb on C-SPAN. Prologue 15
1. "A Cloacina of All the Depravities of Human Nature" 21
2. "A Line of Separation between Honest Men & Knaves" 35
3. "That Tongue That Is Licking Up the Cream of Commerce" 53
4. "What Can Be the End of All This but Another General Collapse?" 71
5. "Vanity Fair Was No Longer a Dream" 91
6. "Who ... Could Blame Them for Doing What They Pleased?" 109
7. "The Bulls, Triumphant, Faced Their Foes" 127
8. "All You Have to Do Is Buy Cheap and Sell Dear" 147
9. "Have You Anything to Suggest?" 163
10. "Why Don't You Tell Them What to Do, Mr. Morgan?" 181
11. "Does This Happen Often?" 197
12. "The Stock Exchange Can Do Anything" 213
13. "Not Dick Whitney!" 231
14. "Wall Street Is ... Main Street" 249
15. "It's Time We Put In a Good Word for Greed" 267
Epilogue 285
Notes 297
Bibliography 305
Index 309
内容简介:
For more than two hundred years, fortunes have been made -- and lost -- on Wall Street by men and women playing the great game of capitalism. Many have repeated the mistakes of their forebears, and some have enjoyed similar triumphs. In this gripping and
作者简介:
John Steele Gordon was born in New York City in 1944 into a family long associated with the city and its financial community. Both his grandfathers held seats on the New York Stock Exchange. He was educated at Millbrook School and Vanderbilt University, graduating with a B.A. in history in 1966.
After college he worked as a production editor for Harper & Row (now HarperCollins) for six years before leaving to travel, driving a Land-Rover from New York to Tierra del Fuego, a nine-month journey of 39,000 miles.
After returning to New York he served on the staffs of Congressmen Herman Badillo and Robert Garcia. He has been a full-time writer for the last twenty years. His second book, The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street, a history of Wall Street in the 1860's, was published in 1988. His third book, Hamilton's Blessing: the Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debt, was published in 1997. The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power, 1653-2000, was published by Scribner, a Simon and Schuster imprint, in November, 1999. A two-hour special based on The Great Game aired on CNBC on April 24th, 2000. His latest book, a collection of his columns from American Heritage magazine, entitled The Business of America, was published in July, 2001, by Walker. His history of the laying of the Atlantic Cable, A Thread Across the Ocean, was published in June, 2002. His next book, to be published by HarperCollins, is a history of the American economy.
He specializes in business and financial history. He has had articles published in, among others, Forbes, Forbes ASAP, Worth, the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal Op-Ed pages, the Washington Post's Book World and Outlook. He is a contributing editor at American Heritage, where he has written the "Business of America" column since 1989.
In 1991 he traveled to Europe, Africa, North and South America, and Japan with the photographer Bruce Davidson for Schlumberger, Ltd., to create a photo essay called "Schlumberger People," for the company's annual report.
In 1992 he was the co-writer, with Timothy C. Forbes and Steve Forbes, of Happily Ever After?, a video produced by Forbes in honor of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the magazine.
He is a frequent commentator on Marketplace, the daily Public Radio business-news program heard on more than two hundred stations throughout the country. He has appeared on numerous other radio and television shows, including New York: A Documentary Film by Ric Burns, Business Center and Squawk Box on CNBC, and The News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. He was a guest in 2001 on a live, two-hour edition of Booknotes with Brian Lamb on C-SPAN.
目录:
Prologue 15
1. "A Cloacina of All the Depravities of Human Nature" 21
2. "A Line of Separation between Honest Men & Knaves" 35
3. "That Tongue That Is Licking Up the Cream of Commerce" 53
4. "What Can Be the End of All This but Another General Collapse?" 71
5. "Vanity Fair Was No Longer a Dream" 91
6. "Who ... Could Blame Them for Doing What They Pleased?" 109
7. "The Bulls, Triumphant, Faced Their Foes" 127
8. "All You Have to Do Is Buy Cheap and Sell Dear" 147
9. "Have You Anything to Suggest?" 163
10. "Why Don't You Tell Them What to Do, Mr. Morgan?" 181
11. "Does This Happen Often?" 197
12. "The Stock Exchange Can Do Anything" 213
13. "Not Dick Whitney!" 231
14. "Wall Street Is ... Main Street" 249
15. "It's Time We Put In a Good Word for Greed" 267
Epilogue 285
Notes 297
Bibliography 305
Index 309