Bernard M. Baruch: The Adventures of a Wall Street Legend / Edition 1

by James L. Grant

Overview

This biography of Bernard Baruch considered to be renowned as the definitive story about the notorious financial wizard and presidential advisor. Baruch's political policies are discussed briefly, and James Grant includes a detailed account of Baruch's trading and investment gains and losses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471170754
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	02/05/1997
Series:	Trailblazers Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.65(h) x 1.28(d)

About the Author

JAMES GRANT, the author of Money of the Mind, among other books, is the founder and editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer. He is a weekly commentator on CNN and a longtime panelist on Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser.

Table of Contents

A Doctor's Son.

Three Dollars a Week.

Baruch's Wall Street.

"Wealth Commenced to Pour In on Me." His Own Man.

The Baron of Hobcaw.

Striking It Rich Reluctantly.

Poison-Pen Letter.

Captain of Industry.

Plainspoken Diplomat.

Farming, Money, McAdoo.

"I Would Stand Pat." Suffering Roosevelt.

"His Métier Was Peril." The Atom and All.

Notes.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

A biography of the self-made millionaire and stock trader, originally published in 1983 by Simon and Schuster. Includes b&w photos. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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