Wall Street People by Charles D. Ellis (9780471274285)

Description - Wall Street People by Charles D. Ellis

Revealing, captivating, and surprising stories of yesterday's
legendary financial masterminds

From its inception, Wall Street has been home to a variety of
fascinating heroes and villains who have left their mark-for better
or for worse-in pursuit of their financial endeavors. In Volume Two
of Wall Street People, Charles Ellis and James Vertin turn back the
clock to reveal the true stories of yesterday's barons of finance.
This book profiles some of the most interesting, powerful, and
talked-about financial luminaries of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. Readers will go behind the public image of financial
personalities such as Jesse L. Livermore, Joseph P. Kennedy, Andrew
Carnegie, and John D. Rockefeller. Vivid portraits of these and
other financial legends offer a rare glimpse into the professional
and personal world of yesterday's barons of finance.

Charles D. Ellis (Greenwich, CT) served for twenty-eight years as
Managing Partner of Greenwich Associates.

James R. Vertin (Menlo Park, CA) was the founding manager and CIO
of Wells Fargo Investment Advisors.

Vertin and Ellis have previously collaborated to produce three
other books, including Wall Street People: True Stories of Today's
Masters and Moguls (Wiley: 0-471-23809-0).

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