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White shoe, how a new breed of Wall Street lawyers changed big business and the American century, John Oller

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White shoe, how a new breed of Wall Street lawyers changed big business and the American century, John Oller

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-418) and index

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illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

White shoe

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1043051790

Responsibility statement

John Oller

Sub title

how a new breed of Wall Street lawyers changed big business and the American century

Summary

A former Manhattan lawyer recounts how an ambitious new class of attorneys in the twentieth century devised and implemented the strategies that launched the era of American big business and international Wall Street prominence

Table Of Contents

Boy wonder -- Send your man to my man -- The physician of Wall Street -- Beware of Mr. Cromwell -- The Cravath System -- The respectable person -- A Gordian knot -- I turned my back on Cravath -- Nothing but a paid attorney -- High finance -- I hope I am a wiser man -- Conscience of a conservative lawyer -- The scourge of Wall Street -- A civilization which is called Christian -- Money cannot buy it -- The wolf of Wall Street -- The curse of bigness -- Preparedness -- Over there -- To end all wars -- Normalcy -- The last great epoch

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How a new breed of Wall Street lawyers changed big business and the American century

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