Eagle on the Street: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Account of the Sec's Battle with Wall Street

By David A. Vise

Book Overview

The complete account of the most infamous economic debacle of our century, the story of how the Securities and Exchange Commission, under the sway of Reaganomics and the leadership of John Shad, brought deregulation to the stock market and helped fuel the great bull market while planting some of the seeds for the 1987 crash. No other book tells the whole story, with such color and precision. This is the definitive exploration of the Senate hearing rooms, office towers, trading pits, and back rooms where Wall Street and Washington cut the deals of a decade of greed. Photos.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684193140
• ISBN13: 9780684193144
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 395 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Amazingly funny anecdotes of Dr. Gregg Jarrell's life

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