![]() ![]() Perhaps the most interesting essays are on David Lilienthal's post-government career as financial consultant, the Stock Exchange's public-spirited (and tormented) decision to back a foundering firm in ""making the customers whole,"" and, finally, the case of Goodrich vs. GE price-fixing appears again as does the story of Piggly-Wiggly. The federal income tax is anatomized, as is the devaluation of sterling (some of the brokers lost faith as well as money), and the market fluctuation of 1962. Here again is the classic ""American antisuccess story"" of the Edsel, paired with the happier fortunes of Xerox. But all of the material seems quite fresh. Three of the essays appeared in his previous collection, The Fate of the Edsel and Other Business Adventures (in very slightly different form) and many have appeared in The New Yorker. Brooks dramatizes thirteen recent parlous, sometimes perilous, episodes on Wall Street. The title, however apt, doesn't indicate the fascination of the book in which Mr. ![]()
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