Entertaining & Informative

Entertaining & Informative Stories

By: Roger Lowenthal 2001 ed. In "When Genius Failed", bestselling author Lowenstein captures the entire roller-coaster ride of long-term capital management in gripping detail. Drawing on confidential internal memos and interviews with dozens of key players, Lowenstein crafts a story that reads like a first-rate thriller from beginning to end.

By: John Rolfe & Peter Troob 2000 ed. "Monkey Business" is the hilarious confession of two young investment bankers of what it's like at ground zero on The Street. This tell-all pulls off Wall Street's suspenders and gives the reader the inside skinny on what working at an investment bank is all about.

By: Connie Bruck 1989 ed. During the '80s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham created the corporate raiders. He was the billionaire Junk Bond King. But, in the corner stood the U.S. District Attorney waiting to file criminal and racketeering charges.

By: Michael Lewis 1990 ed. In fiction there was Bonfire of the Vanities; in reality, there is Liar's Poker--the fascinating insider's account of what really happens on Wall Street. This irreverent and hilarious birds-eye view of Wall Street's heyday will appeal to anyone intrigued by the allure of million dollar deals.

By: Po Bronson 1995 ed. Welcome to the manic world of the bombardiers, a ragtag corps of bond traders who hustle financial products in the fast lane of the Information Superhighway.

By: Frank Portnoy 1999 ed. Fiasco is the first book to take on the derivatves trading industry--the most highly charged and risky sector of the stock market. More importantly, it is a blistering indictment of the largely unregulated market in derivatives and serves as a warning to unwary investors about real fiascos, which have cost billions of dollars.

By: Bryan Burrough & John Helyar 2003 ed. "Barbarians at the Gate" is the classic account of the defining takeover in Wall Street merger history. The authors' gripping record of the frenzy that overtook Wall Street, in fall of 1988, gives a richly textured social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era.

By: Paul Krugman 1995 ed. The past twenty years have been an era of economic disappointment in the U.S. They have also been a time of intense economic debate, as rival ideologies contend for policy influence. But strange things have happened to economic ideas on their way to power--they've been hijacked by policy entrepreneurs who offer easy answers to hard problems.

By Jim Rogers 2003 ed. Jim Rogers became a Wall Street legend when he co-founded the Quantum Fund. Investment Biker is the fascinating story of Rogers's global motorcycle journey/investing trip, with hardheaded advice on the current state and future direction of international economies that will guide and inspire investors interested in foreign markets.

By: Tom Wolfe 1990 ed. Thirty-eight-year-old Sherman McCoy, who lives on Park Avenue, has a wife and a high-maintenance mistress, and is a successful Wall Street bond trader, faces notoriety and the criminal justice system when he is arrested for hit-and-run driving in the South Bronx.

By James Cramer 2003 ed. Everyone on Wall Street knows Jim Cramer, and Cramer knows Wall Street better than anyone. In the most candid and outrageous look at Wall Street since Liar's Poker, Cramer, co-founder of TheStreet.com, radio and television commentator, and for years a premier money manager, takes readers on the wild ride that is Wall Street -- revealing how the game is played, who breaks the rules, and who gets hurt.

By: Michael Lewis 2002 ed. With his knowing eye and wicked pen, Lewis reveals how the Internet boom has encouraged great changes in the way we live, work, and think. A bestseller in hardcover, "Next" is a wake-up call for a wired world.

By: Fred Schwed 2006 ed. "Where Are the Customers’ Yachts exposes the folly and hypocrisy of Wall Street in a very humorous and entertaining manner. The title refers to a story about a visitor to New York who admired the yachts of the bankers and brokers in New York Harbor. Naively, he asked where are the customers’ yachts. Of course, there were no customer yachts. The book contains a number of other stories about Wall Street predictions, customers, mutual funds, speculators, and the wild bull market of the 1920s. Schwed believes the best way to make money is buy after the market has crashed and sell when everyone is euphoric about the market. While the contrarian philosophy has much merit, the real value of the book is in opening the eyes of investors to how Wall Street makes money and why the vast majority of investors lose money over time.

By: James Stewart 1992 ed. A number-one bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells, in masterfully reported detail, the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice. Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the biggest names on Wall Street -- Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine -- created the greatest insider-trading ring in financial history and almost walked away with billions, until a team of downtrodden detectives triumphed over some of America's most expensive lawyers to bring this powerful quartet to justice.

By: Michael Lewis 1999 ed. A character study of Jim Clark, the founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape, and Healtheon. The narrative discusses Clark's entrepreneurial ideas and sheds light on the history of the Internet, all in the midst of exploring the creation and travels of Clark's high-tech computer-controlled single-mast sailboat Hyperion.

By: Ben Mezrich 2005 ed. Ugly Americans is the true story of John Malcolm, a hungry young Princeton grad who traveled halfway around the world in search of the American dream and ultimately pulled off a trade that could, quite simply, be described as the biggest deal in the history of the financial markets.

By: Mariam Naficy 1997 ed. An experienced recruiter shares the secrets of breaking into the exciting, fiercely competitive, and lucrative worlds of high finance and consulting, and gives in-depth profiles of the top firms.