Publisher Comments

Category: Banking & Finance This title is part of the Business Histories list. Of Interest: AMEX: A History of the American Stock Exchange Black Monday: The Stock Market Catastrophe of October 19, 1987 The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market The Curbstone Brokers: The Origins of the American Stock Exchange Takeover: The New Wall Street Warriors: The Men, the Money, the Impact

A highly readable account that captures the atmosphere, excitement, and personalities of Wall Street for a century, 1877-1977. Focusing on new interest groups that arose to rival the traditional ones, it describes and analyzes the challenges that developed and how they were met. Robert Sobel puts the turmoil in perspective with capsule histories of the origins of the stock exchange, investment banking, and mutual funds.

From R.A. Sokolov, New York Times Book Review

"This concise, clear history...shows in dramatic detail the way the once-supreme New York Stock Exchange has declined under multiple attacks from economic forces beyond its control, from feistier, small exchanges and from its unofficial rivals with more aggressive methods..." 

Other Beard Books by Robert Sobel

• AMEX: A History of the American Stock Exchange
• Dangerous Dreamers: The Financial Innovators from Charles Merrill to Michael Milken
• ITT: The Management of Opportunity
• Panic on Wall Street: A History of America's Financial Disasters
• The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market
• The Curbstone Brokers: The Origins of the American Stock Exchange 
• The Entrepreneurs: Explorations Within the American Business Tradition
• The Fallen Colossus
• The Money Manias: The Eras of Great Speculation in America 1770-1970
• The Rise and Fall of the Conglomerate Kings
• Thomas Watson, Sr.: IBM and the Computer Revolution

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