Table of Contents
Foreword vii
I Climax: The Day Henry Ross Perot Lost $450 Million 1
II Fair Exchange: The Year the Amex Delisted the Old Guard Romans 26
III The Last Gatsby: Recessional for Edward M Gilbert 55
IV Palmy Days and Low Rumblings: Early Warnings Along Wall Street 81
V Northern Exposure: Early Warnings Along Bay Street 104
VI The Birth of Go-Go: The Rise of a Proper Chinese Bostonian 127
VII The Conglomerateurs: Corporate Chutzpah and Creative Accounting 150
VIII The Enormous Back Room: Drugs, Fails, and Chaos Among the Clerks 182
IX Go-Go at High Noon: The View from Trinity Church 206
X Confrontation: Steinberg/Leasco vs Renchard/Chemical Bank 227
XI Revelry Before Waterloo: The Time of the Great Garbage Market 260
XII The 1970 Crash: To the Edge of the Abyss 291
XIII Saving Graces: The Invisible Samaritans of Wall Street 311
XIV The Go-Go Years 348
Notes on Sources 358
Index 364
