Eagle on the Street: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Account of the Sec's Battle With Wall Street [Hardcover]

David A. Vise (Author), Steve Coll (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0788159143 | ISBN-13: 978-0788159145 | Publication Date: June 1991

This work tells the story of the Securities and Exchange Commission's battle for and against Wall Street during the 1980s. Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning series in "The Washington Post", the book is built around the exploits of John Shad, a man who rose from humble beginnings in Utah to become a wealthy financier and chairman of the SEC during the deregulatory period of Reaganomics. Shad's freemarket policies fuelled the great bull market while planting some of the seeds for the 1987 stock market crash. This tale of how the SEC tried, and frequently failed, to protect ordinary investors from unscrupulous financiers embraces all the big business stories that made headlines during the 1980s.

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From Publishers Weekly

Vise and Coll chronicle the SEC's tangled relations with Wall Street during the 1980s . Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning series in the Washington Post. Photos.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

That this book won a Pulitzer Prize in its original serialized form ( Washington Post magazine) is difficult to believe. It is a history of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and its chairman John Shed during the 1980s, but the authors are clearly biased. Free enterprise? Capitalism? Mistakes. The SEC wasn't regulatory enough for the authors' apparent belief that with enough regulation humanity will become virtuous. They never explain this obvious prejudice, although there were advantages to some takeovers and leveraged buyouts. Among the many irritants in this book: a misunderstanding of "liquidity"; endless slanted adjectives and cliches (all buildings are "towering"; when someone they don't care for acts, it is "frenzied"); and unsubstantiated quotes (there is no real bibliography, only a thank you to "more than 250 people" used as sources). A dispassionate history of the SEC in the 1980s remains to be written.
- Alex Wenner, Indiana Univ. Libs., Bloomington
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Diane Pub Co (June 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0788159143
• ISBN-13: 978-0788159145
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,655,910 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazingly funny anecdotes of Dr. Gregg Jarrell's life, May 2, 1997

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This review is from: Eagle on the Street: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Account of the Sec's Battle With Wall Street (Hardcover)

This book provides an insightful look into one aspect of the life of the "Peter Pan of Chicago", Dr. Gregg Jarrell of the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business. Quotes such as "Its easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission" should be a part of any financier's repertiore