Word: wechsberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MERCHANT BANKERS by Joseph Wechsberg. 365 pages. Little, Brown...
...this series of essays, New Yorker Correspondent Joseph Wechsberg examines seven of the world's leading merchant or investment bankers. Though he is himself the son and grandson of bankers, Wechsberg ignores a lot of the basics of the business and, with the exception of a chapter on Wall Street's Lehman Brothers, shortchanges the potent U.S. bankers to concentrate on those of London's City. But his stories have a richness of color and some details of remarkable deals that have turned money into factories, jobs and useful products for everybody's compound interest...