The last partnerships
Subtitle: inside the great Wall Street money dynasties
By: Charles R. Geisst
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780071369992
Subjects: History; Case studies; Business failures; Partnership; Stockbrokers; Mergers; Securities industry
Description: "The Last Partnerships presents a panoramic history of America's great financial houses - from the lotteries and Yankee Bankers of the early 1800s through the IPOs and mergers of the late 20th century. No other book has examined these American financial legends in such intimate detail."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-328) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Yankee banking houses : Clark Dodge and Jay Cooke; title: "Our crowd" : the Seligmans, Lehman Brothers, and Kuhn Loeb; title: White shoes and racehorses : Brown Brothers Harriman and August Belmont; title: Crashed and absorbed : Kidder Peabody and Dillon Read; title: Corner of Broad and Wall : J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley; title: Corner of Wall and Main : Merrill Lynch and E.F. Hutton; title: Unraveled by greed : Salomon Brothers and Drexel Burnham; title: The last holdouts : Goldman Sacchs and Lazard Freres.