The last partnerships : inside the great Wall Street dynasties / Charles R. Geisst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geisst, Charles R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Securities industry--United States--History.

Securities industry.

Stockbrokers.

History.

Business failures.

Partnership.

Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)--History.

Wall Street (New York, N.Y.).

United States.

Securities industry--Mergers--New York (State)--New York--Case studies.

Stockbrokers--Mergers--New York (State)--New York--Case studies.

Partnership--New York (State)--New York--Case studies.

Business failures--New York (State)--New York--Case studies.

Stockbrokers--United States--History.

New York (State)--New York.

New York (State).

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : McGraw-Hill, [2001]

Summary:

This account of the rise and fall of Wall Street's financial empires combines rigorous scholarship with journalism to present a panoramic history of the ride taken by companies from the turn of the century, up to 1999. 8-page photo insert.

Contents:

1 The Yankee Banking Houses: Clark Dodge and Jay Cooke 9

2 "Our Crowd": The Seligmans, Lehman Brothers, and Kuhn Loeb 40

3 White Shoes and Racehorses: Brown Brothers Harriman and August Belmont 81

4 Crashed and Absorbed: Kidder Peabody and Dillon Read 114

5 Corner of Broad and Wall: J. P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley 157

6 Corner of Wall and Main: Merrill Lynch and E. F. Hutton 209

7 Unraveled by Greed: Salomon Brothers and Drexel Burnham 240

8 The Last Holdouts: Goldman Sachs and Lazard Freres 282.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-328) and index.

ISBN:

0071369996

OCLC:

46343343