By Frederick Lewis Allen, Mark Crispin Miller, Gretchen Morgenson
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And i need to say, this can be probably the most enjoyable i have had examining a publication shortly. when you might imagine Graham is horribly dry in his funding books--with his Victorian and impersonal English--here he does an outstanding task at writing an exciting narrative of his existence. i really came across myself laughing-out-loud lovely not easy at many of the traces in it.
The 30-page creation by way of Seymour Chatman can also be well-written. It does an outstanding activity of summarizing and highlighting the publication. i would suggest you furthermore mght learn it.
Even for those who do not care approximately Graham, you could deal with the e-book as an unique piece of fiction, if you happen to like. The ebook is that a lot enjoyable and the tales contained are sufficiently attention-grabbing through their very own benefit to maintain any reader giggling, sobbing, and fortunately desirous to learn till the realization.
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Starting web page - bankruptcy title
vii - creation through Seymour Chatman (roughly 30 pages long)
1 - early life in New York
19 - relations Tragedies and My Mother's Perseverance
37 - At Public School
55 - highschool Days: Brooklyn and the Bronx
73 - The Farmhand and The Mechanic
93 - the varsity Student
123 - My profession Begins
141 - Early Years in Wall Street
163 - The Beginnings of genuine Success
185 - the good Bull marketplace of the Twenties: I develop into a close to Millionaire
199 - The Northern Pipeline Contest
217 - family members and different Affairs
247 - The Midpoint of Life's means: The Deluge Begins
267 - the line again, 1933-1940
279 - My "Career" as a Playwright
293 - The Commodity Reserve forex Plan
309 - Epilogue: Benjamin Graham's Self-Portrait at Sixty-Three and his 80th Birthday Speech
The publish script contains:
317 - Chronology
327 - Notes
337 - Bibliography of Writings by means of and approximately Benjamin Graham
343 - Index
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Some of the events recounted in The Lords of Creation highlight the differences between the turn of the twentieth century and today. For example, the Glass-Steagall legislation—the government’s chief response to the dubious Wall Street practices that led to the Crash of 1929—had real teeth. Until 1999 when Congress killed it off, that law had helped protect the public from rapacious bankers for almost seventyyears. Contrast this with the Dodd-Frank law, Congress’s response to the debacle of 2008.
Hour after hour the men talked. Schwab had a list of all the companies which might be brought into the big combination; he explained why this one was needed and why that one was not; he specified purchase prices; Morgan plied him with incessant questions, battered the project into practical financial shape as the talk progressed. Finally the conference ended. … “Morgan brought matters to a close by rising. “‘Well,’ he said to Schwab, ‘if Andy wants to sell, I’ll buy. ’” One may imagine Schwab’s delight as he walked out into Madison Avenue that early winter morning.
The little white-bearded Scotchman was at first cast into gloom at the prospect of retirement. For thirty years he had planned to retire, but now that the gates of a financial Valhalla stood open before him, he saw them with a heavy heart, for he loved the fight. But he did not say no. He asked only to be given a little time to think the proposal over. Schwab knew then that he had won. The next day Carnegie discussed the sale again with Schwab, wrote his price—expressed in terms of exchange of Carnegie stocks and bonds for securities of the new corporation—in pencil on a slip of paper, and gave it to Schwab.