ONCE IN GOLCONDA: A TRUE DRAMA OF WALL STREET 1920-1938
Book ID/图书代码： 06000006B08642
English Summary/英文概要： Once in Golconda "In this book, John Brooks-who was one of the most elegant of all business writers-perfectly catches the flavor of one of history’s best-known financial dramas: the 1929 crash and its aftershocks. It’s packed with parallels and parables for the modern reader." -From the Foreword by Richard Lambert Editor-in-Chief, The Financial Times Once in Golconda is a dramatic chronicle of the breathtaking rise, devastating fall, and painstaking rebirth of Wall Street in the years between the wars. Focusing on the lives and fortunes of some of the era’s most memorable traders, bankers, boosters, and frauds, John Brooks brings to vivid life all the ruthlessness, greed, and reckless euphoria of the ’20s bull market, the desperation of the days leading up to the crash of ’29, and the bitterness of the years that followed. Praise for Once in Golconda "A fast-moving, sophisticated account.embracing the stock-market boom of the twenties, the crash of 1929, the Depression, and the coming of the New Deal. Its leitmotif is the truly tragic personal history of Richard Whitney, the aristocrat Morgan broker and head of the Stock Exchange, who ended up in Sing Sing." -Edmund Wilson, writing in the New Yorker "As Mr. Brooks tells this tale of dishonor, desperation, and the fall of the mighty, it takes on overtones of Greek tragedy, a king brought down by pride. Whitney’s sordid history has been told before..But in Mr. Brooks’s hands, the drama becomes freshly shocking." -Wall Street Journal "It’s all there in Once in Golconda-the avarice of an era that favored the rich; and the later anguish of myriads of speculators doomed by a bloated market, easy credit, and their own cupidity and stupidity." -Saturday Review
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 價值恒久遠 經典永流傳 1920年9月16日，星期四，華爾街上空響起一陣巨大的、毀滅性的爆炸聲，30人在爆炸中當場身亡，百餘人嚴重受傷。然而，誰也不曾料到，這次爆炸事件與九年之後發生的席捲整個資本主義世界的空前經濟危機相比，就像是燃放了一支煙花爆竹般不值一提。
《格爾康達往事》全書記錄了華爾街在戰爭期間驚人崛起、全然崩潰和痛苦新生的生動編年史。聚焦於這個特殊大時代背景下最值得紀念的小人物的生活和命運，商人、銀行家、援助者以及商業詐騙者的鮮活角色賦予了作品更強大的生命力，描述了20世紀20年代牛市的無情、貪婪、蠻勇和欣喜，1929年大崩盤前的絕望以及大蕭條時的苦難歲月。
作者布魯克斯以其權威、充滿神韻而又不乏幽默的筆觸，向我們介紹了摩根合夥人等美國新式“貴族”如何像對待他們的私人狩獵場一樣專橫地操控華爾街。貫穿故事中心的是狂妄自大的理查•惠特尼，這位貴族式的摩根經紀人、證交所總裁及保守派的首領，冠冕堂皇之下卻是一個落入負債陷阱的“百萬負翁”，最終因挪用證券鋃鐺入獄，展現了華爾街如何從美國貴族的宮殿聖地演變為各種平民力量角逐的場所。
本書雖然首印於1969年，但因其所探索的主題所產生的亙古恒久的魅力仍然吸引著現代的投資者，而本書的立意也必定有助於投資者循著各個時期世界資本的脈絡，從中發現惠助當下的謀略與智慧。(Claire)
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About the Author/作者介绍： JOHN BROOKS was an award-winning New Yorker staff writer and author of several critically acclaimed explorations of business and Wall Street. Besides Once in Golconda, these include The Go-Go Years (Wiley), The Games Players, Business Adventures, and The Fate of the Edsel.
約翰.布魯克斯是《紐約客》屢獲殊榮的特約撰稿人，他所著的幾部關於商業和華爾街的書籍更是備受矚目，包括《格爾康達往事—1920-1938年華爾街的真實故事》（Once in Golconda），《博弈者》（The Games Players），《商業冒險》（Business Adventures）以及《埃德塞爾的命運》（The Fate of the Edsel）堪稱投資金融界的寶典。
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