Wall Street to main street : Charles Merrill and middle-class investors / Edwin J. Perkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perkins, Edwin J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merrill, Charles, 1885-1956.

Capitalists and financiers--United States--Biography.

Capitalists and financiers.

United States.

Merrill Lynch & Co. (1973- )--History.

Merrill Lynch & Co. (1973- ).

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 283 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Eng. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Contents:

Introduction

1. The return to Wall Street

2. Growing up in Florida

3. A northern education

4. The lure of New York

5. Off to a flying start

6. The booming twenties

7. The Safeway decade

8. Reform on Wall Street

9. Third career: new strategies on Wall Street

10. Testing new strategies: the war years

11. Sharing power with Win Smith

12. The postwar years, 1945-1950

13. Last years at the helm, 1951-1956

14. Merrill's legacy

Epilogue: Merrill Lynch in the 1990s

Appendix: Unpublished manuscripts

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-280) and index.

ISBN:

0521630290 :

OCLC:

41391442