Ross Perot who lost $450 million in one day, Saul Steinberg's attempt to take over Chemical Bank, and the fall of America's "Last Gatsby, " Eddie Gilbert. Included are the stories of such high-profile personalities as H. It was a time when greed drove the market and fast money was being made and lost as the "go-go" stocks surged and plunged. You read it because it is a wonderful description of the way things were in a different time and place." -From the Foreword by Michael Lewis The Go-Go Years is the harrowing and humorous story of the growth stocks of the 1960s and how their meteoric rise caused a multitude of small investors to thrive until the devastating market crashes in the 1970s. You do not read this book to see our present situation reenacted in the past, with only the names changed. The Go-Go Years "The Go-Go Years is not to be read in the usual manner of Wall Street classics.
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