Included are the dramatic stories of such high-profile personalities as H. It was a time when greed drove the market and fast money was being made and lost in the surge and plunge of growth and performance stocks. John Brooks’s award-winning and inimitable style brings to life the people, places, and extraordinary circumstances that changed the course of the stock market forever. Their meteoric rise caused a multitude of small investors to thrive for nearly a decade. But it is also a cautionary tale of Wall Street for today's investor, chronicling the personalities, markets, events, and trends that drove stocks up throughout the 1960s and made millionaires of many-until the inevitable crashes in the 1970s.Ĭonsidered a classic among finance classics, The Go-Go Years is the harrowing and humorous story of the 'go-go' growth stocks of the 1960s. It remains a pivotal era in American financial history, a time of corporate gunslingers, mutual funds, new-issue stocks, Chinese money, and the conglomerates. The 1960s bull market was a wild time of unbridled growth and stellar performance. You read it because it is a wonderful description of the way things were in a different time and place.' You do not read this book to see our present situation reenacted in the past, with only the names changed. ' The Go-Go Years is not to be read in the usual manner of Wall Street classics.

The Go-Go Years by John Brooks