The GoGo Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Streets Bullish 60s

The GoGo YearsThe GoGo Years is not to be read in the usual manner ofWall Street classics. You do not read this book to see our presentsituation reenacted in the past, with only the names changed. Youread it because it is a wonderful description of the way thingswere in a different time and place.From the Foreword by Michael LewisThe GoGo Years is the harrowing and humorous story ofthe growth stocks of the 1960s and how their meteoric rise caused amultitude of small investors to thrive until the devastating marketcrashes in the 1970s. It was a time when greed drove the market andfast money was being made and lost as the gogo stocks surged andplunged. Included are the stories of such highprofilepersonalities as H. Ross Perot who lost $450 million in one day,Saul Steinbergs attempt to take over Chemical Bank, and the fallof Americas Last Gatsby, Eddie Gilbert.Praise for The GoGo YearsThose for whom the stock market is mostly a spectator sportwill relish the books verve, color, and memorableoneliners.New York Review of BooksPlease dont take The GoGo Years too much for granted:as effortlessly as it seems to fly, it is nonetheless an unusuallycomplex and thoughtful work of social history.New York TimesBrookss great contribution is his synthesis of all theelements that made the 1960s the most volatile in Wall Streethistory . and making so much material easily digestible for theuninitiated.Publishers WeeklyBrooks ... is about the only writer around who combines athorough knowledge of finance with the ability to perceive behindthe dance of numbers high, pure, moral melodrama on the themes ofpossession, domination, and belonging.Time