Richard E. Farley - Gonzo Wall Street: Riots, Radicals, Racism and Revolution: How the Go-Go Bankers of the 1960s Crashed the Financial System and Bamboozled Washington

Richard E. Farley

Recipient, Bloomberg BNAs Burton Award

Gonzo Wall Street

Riots, Radicals, Racism and Revolution

How the Go-Go Bankers of the 1960s Crashed the Financial System and Bamboozled Washington

Gonzo Wall Street, indeed! A brilliant, historic account of financial incompetence and malfeasance. Urgent reading with critical lessons for today.

Douglas E. Schoen, coauthor of America: Unite or Die

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing.

One that sounds goodand the real one.

J. P. Morgan

• At the White House:
  • John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth President of the United States
  • Lyndon Baines Johnson, thirty-sixth President of the United States
  • Richard M. Nixon, thirty-seventh President of the United States
  • Peter M. Flanigan, Chief Economic Advisor to President Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman, Chief of Staff to President Nixon
  • John B. Connally, unofficial advisor to President Nixon
• At the Securities and Exchange Commission:
  • William L. Carey, Chairman (19611964)
  • Manuel F. Cohen, Chairman (19641969)
  • Hamer L. Budge, Chairman (19691971)
  • Irving M. Pollack, Director of Trading and Markets Division
  • Phillip A. Loomis Jr., General Counsel
  • Eugene Rotberg, Chief Counsel, Office of Policy Planning
• At the Department of Justice:
  • John N. Mitchell, Attorney General
  • Richard W. McLaren, Assistant Attorney GeneralAntitrust Division
• At the Treasury Department:
  • David M. Kennedy, Secretary of the Treasury
  • Charles E. Walker, Under Secretary of the Treasury
  • Bruce K. MacLaury, Deputy Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs
• At the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York:
  • Robert M. Morgenthau, United States Attorney

• At the United States Senate:
  • Edmund S. Muskie, Senator from Maine
  • Harrison A. Williams, Senator from New Jersey; Chairman of Subcommittee on Securities
  • A. Willis Robertson, Senator from Arkansas; Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency (19591966)
  • John J. Sparkman, Senator from Alabama; Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency (19661970)
  • Robert F. Kennedy, Senator from New York
  • Eugene McCarthy, Senator from Wisconsin
  • J. William Fulbright, Senator from Arkansas
  • J. Allen Frear, Senator from Delaware
  • Edward W. Brooke, Senator from Massachusetts
  • E. William Proxmire, Senator from Wisconsin
• At the House of Representatives:
  • John E. Moss, Representative from California; Chairman of the Subcommittee on Commerce and Finance
  • Oren Harris, Representative from Arkansas; Chairman of the Committee on Foreign and Interstate Commerce (19571966)
  • Harley O. Staggers, Representative from West Virginia; Chairman of the Committee on Foreign and Interstate Commerce (19661981)

• At the New York Stock Exchange:
  • John A. Coleman, Former Chairman
  • Gustave L. Levy, Chairman (19671969)
  • Bernard J. Lasker, Chairman (19691971); member of Crisis Committee
  • Ralph DeNunzio, Vice Chairman; member of Crisis Committee
  • G. Keith Funston, President (19511967)
  • Robert W. Haack, President (19671972)
  • Joseph A. Meehan, member of Board of Governors
  • Edward C. Gray, Executive Vice President (19481968)
  • R. John Cunningham, Executive Vice President (19681970)
  • Lee D. Arning, Senior Vice President
  • Robert M. Bishop, Senior Vice President
  • Felix G. Rohatyn, member of Crisis Committee
  • Solomon Litt, member of Crisis Committee
  • Stephen M. Peck, member of Crisis Committee
• At McDonnell & Co.:
  • T. Murray McDonnell, Chairman
  • Lawrence F. OBrien, President
  • Paul K. McDonald, Acting President
  • Sean McDonnell, Executive Vice President
  • Henry C. B. Lindh, Senior Vice President and Treasurer
• At Hayden, Stone, Inc.:
  • Alfred J. Coyle, Chairman
  • Ara A. Cambre, President
  • Donald R. Stroben, Executive Vice President (as of May 1970, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer)
• At Francis I. duPont & Co.:
  • Edmund duPont, Senior Partner
  • Charles Moran Jr., Managing Partner (19631969)
  • Wallace C. Latour, Managing Partner (19691970)
• At Goodbody & Co.:
  • James E. Hogle, Chairman
  • Harold P. Goodbody, Senior Partner
  • Edward N. Bagley, Managing Partner
• At Cogan, Berlind, Weill & Levitt, Inc.:
  • Marshall S. Cogan, Partner
  • Roger S. Berlind, Partner
  • Sanford I. Weill, Partner
  • Arthur Levitt Jr., Partner
  • Frank Zarb, Executive Vice President
• At Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.:
  • Donald T. Regan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
• At Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Inc.:
  • Dan W. Lufkin, Partner
  • William H. Donaldson, Partner
  • Richard H. Jenrette, Partner
• At Goldman, Sachs & Co.:
  • Gustave L. Levy, Senior Partner
  • Robert E. Mnuchin, Partner
• At Salomon Brothers:
  • William Salomon, Managing Partner
  • Jay H. Perry, Partner
  • Michael J. Bloomberg, Vice President
• At Lazard Freres & Co.:
  • Felix G. Rohatyn, Partner
• At Adler, Coleman & Company:
  • John A. Coleman, Senior Partner
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