This author can convey a lot of useful and meaningful content in an engaging and listenable, non-technical form. I see more books by John Brooks recently released here, and I look forward enthusiastically to hearing them. But knowing the rest of the story, the way the 1970s did unfold into some serious macro-problems, casts a sobering light back onto this. I enjoyed mentally comparing this account of the mild downturn of 1970 (ending the 'go-go years') with our Great Recession: quite amusing was the author's lamenting unemployment at a whopping 6-plus percent, and such awful privations for the middle class as replacement of steak meals on airliners with sandwiches, and cloth napkins with paper ones! Oh, the horror! I see many Americans in that time period as spoiled brats squandering their historic world supremacy and opportunities, veering into zany and infantile frivolities, and there is ample evidence of that here. It was a time when greed drove the market andfast money was being made and lost as the 'go-go' stocks surged andplunged. It is fitting that Michael Lewis wrote the foreword to an earlier reissue of John Brooks's 1973 book The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s (just republished.

As I listened to this, I also read 'The Money Game' by (the pseudonymous) 'Adam Smith,' a similarly wry-and-sprightly-yet-wise look into many matching stories and aspects of 1960s markets and their denizens. The Go-Go 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. In the foreword, Michael Lewis seems to damn it with faint praise, but I might speculate there's a little envy here, for the work of such an animated storyteller. There are countless wise observations of the fascinations and failings of markets, that are still meaningful today. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order.

Everywhere are telling details and anecdotes (matching cultural tidbits I remember, though I was a kid) in tales of every kind of operator from wiser financiers to high-fliers. Read reviews and buy The Go-Go Years - (Wiley Investment Classics) by John Brooks (Paperback) at Target. This ride through 60s Wall Street moves well, though unevenly here and there.

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