This book has covered more than a century’s worth of Wall Street history. It has also dealt with many financial sectors and introduced a long and diverse list of characters. Readers interested in exploring the development of American finance in more depth and detail will find much to their liking from the following list of informative and enjoyable books.
Part I. Reformers
Brooks, John. Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street, 1920–1938. New York: Harper & Row, 1969.
Chernow, Ron. The House of Morgan: An American Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance. New York: Grove, 1990.
——. The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family. New York: Random House, 1993.
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash, 1929. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954.
Glass, Carter. An Adventure in Constructive Finance. Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday, 1927.
Klein, Maury. Rainbow’s End: The Crash of 1929. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Pecora, Ferdinand. Wall Street Under Oath: The Story of Our Modern Money Changers. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1939.
Perino, Michael. The Hellhound of Wall Street: How Ferdinand Pecora’s Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance. New York: Penguin, 2010.
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. The Coming of the New Deal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959.
Seligman, Joel. The Transformation of Wall Street: A History of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Modern Corporate Finance. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982.
Smith, Rixey, and Norman Beasley. Carter Glass: A Biography. New York: Longmans, Green, 1939.
Strouse, Jean. Morgan: American Financier. New York: Random House, 2000.
Warburg, Paul M. The Federal Reserve System: Its Origin and Growth. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1930.
Part II. Democratizers
Bogle, John C. Character Counts. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
——. Don’t Count on It!: Reflections on Investment Illusions, Capitalism, “Mutual” Funds, Indexing, Entrepreneurship, Idealism and Heroes. New York: Wiley, 2011.
Braham, Lewis. The House That Bogle Built: How John Bogle and Vanguard Reinvented the Mutual Fund Industry. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011.
Geisst, Charles S. The Last Partnerships: Inside the Great Wall Street Money Dynasties. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Lefevre, Edwin. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator. Rev. ed. New York: Wiley, 2006.
Perkins, Edwin J. Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle-Class Investors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Part III. Academics
Ante, Spencer C. Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital. New York: Harvard Business, 2008.
Bernstein, Peter L. Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street. New York: Free Press, 1992.
——. Capital Ideas Evolving. New York: Wiley, 2007.
Brooke, Peter. A Vision for Venture Capital: Realizing the Promise of Global Venture Capital and Private Equity. Boston: New Ventures, 2009.
Graham, Benjamin. The Memoirs of the Dean of Wall Street. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996.
——. The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel. Rev. ed. with updated commentary by Jason Zweig. New York: Harper, 2003.
Graham, Benjamin, and David L. Dodd. Security Analysis. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1934.
Lowe, Janet. The Rediscovered Benjamin Graham. New York: Wiley, 1999.
Lowenstein, Roger. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management. New York: Random House, 2000.
Part IV. Financial Engineers
Biggs, Barton. Hedgehogging. New York: Wiley, 2006.
Fischel, Daniel. Payback: The Conspiracy to Destroy Michael Milken and His Financial Revolution. New York: HarperBusiness, 1995.
Kornbluth, Jesse. Highly Confident: The Crime and Punishment of Michael Milken. New York: Morrow, 1992.
Lack, Simon. The Hedge Fund Mirage: The Illusion of Big Money and Why It’s Too Good to Be True. New York: Wiley, 2012.
Lewis, Michael. Liar’s Poker. New York: Penguin, 1990.
Mallaby, Sebastian. More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite. New York: Penguin, 2010.
Part V. Empire Builders
Kaplan, Gilbert, ed., The Way It Was: An Oral History of Finance 1967–1987. New York: William Morrow, 1988.
Langley, Monica. Tearing Down the Walls: How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to the Top of the Financial World … and Then Nearly Lost It All. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
Sobel, Robert. N.Y.S.E.: A History of the New York Stock Exchange. New York: Weybright and Talley, 1975.
Stone, Amey, and Mike Brewster. King of Capital: Sandy Weill and the Making of Citigroup. New York: Wiley, 2002.
Welles, Chris. The Last Days of the Club. New York: Dutton, 1975.