Beginnings
Disaster: Goldman Sachs Trading Corporation
The long road back
Ford: the largest IPO
Transition years
Gus Levy
The wreck of the Penn Central
Getting great at selling
Block trading: the risky business that roared
Revolution in investment banking
Principles
The two Johns
Bonds: the early years
Figuring out private client services
J. Aron: ugly duckling
Tender defense, a magic carpet
The uses and abuses of research
John Weinberg
Innocents abroad
Breaking and entering
How BP almost became a dry hole
Changing the guard
Transformation
False starts in investment management
Robert Maxwell, the client from hell
Making arbitrage a business
J'accuse
Building a global business
Steve quit!
Collecting the best
Jon Corzine
Long-term capital management
Coup
Getting investment management right
Paulson's disciplines
Lloyd Blankfein, risk manager.