Bernard M. Baruch The Adventures of a Wall Street Legend [Hardcover]

This biography of Bernard Baruch considered to be renowned as the definitive story about the notorious financial wizard and presidential advisor. Baruch's political policies are discussed briefly, and James Grant includes a detailed account of Baruch's trading and investment gains and losses.A Doctor's Son.

Three Dollars a Week.

Baruch's Wall Street.

Wealth Commenced to Pour In on Me. His Own Man.

The Baron of Hobcaw.

Striking It Rich Reluctantly.

Poison-Pen Letter.

Captain of Industry.

Plainspoken Diplomat.

Farming, Money, McAdoo.

I Would Stand Pat. Suffering Roosevelt.

His M?tier Was Peril. The Atom and All.

Notes.

Index.JAMES GRANT, the author of Money of the Mind, among other books, is the founder and editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer. He is a weekly commentator on CNN and a longtime panelist on Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser.Bernard Baruch He was a self-made millionaire and legendary stock trader, a brilliant investor and savvy venture capitalist. He was Bernard M. Baruch, the most famous and admired figure ever to have conquered Wall Street. And when one of the nation’s foremost financial writers took on the challenge of capturing Baruch’s genius, the result was destined to become a classic: a sophisticated, superbly written biography exploring Baruch’s extraordinary career as never before. Now, this stunning republication of James Grant’s critically acclaimed Bernard Baruch: The Adventures of a Wall Street Legend celebrates both the Wall Street wizard and the gifted writer who revealed the man behind the myth. A man of immense charm, who also knew the value of courting the press, Bernard Baruch enjoyed a larger-than-life reputation that l+