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No publisher could craft a more sterling publicity campaign to launch Charles D. Ellis' saga of Goldman Sachs than Wall Street has for the past three months. Proving, yet again, that there's no such thing as bad publicity, the white-knuckle drama being played out in today's market...
The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs By Charles D. Ellis Penguin Press; 729 pages
Underwriting the public stock offerings of Sears Roebuck in 1906 and F.W. Woolworth & Co. in 1912 put the firm on the map. And from there, Goldman--long stigmatized as an outsider "Jewish" firm by its white-shoe rivals--plows on, evolving from what Ellis terms a "marginal eastern U.S. commercial...
Life on Mars should bring viewers back for a second episode, but the highly praised British original resolved its story in only 16 episodes. Can this American Life avoid becoming ridiculous stretching the story out over dozens of episodes? It will depend on how well it rethinks the closed-ended...
No contemporary writer has done more to inform Western perceptions of Islam than Bernard Lewis. His seminal 1950 work, The Arabs in History, still holds up as one of the definitive accounts of the Arab world. Some of his more recent books have examined the rising anti-Western mood in...