White Shoe
How a New Breed of Wall Street Lawyers Changed Big Business and the American Century
New York, New York : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]
Format: Book
Description: viii, 438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
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 lawyer -- 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.
Subjects:
Cravath, Paul D. (Paul Drennan), 1861-1940.
Corporate lawyers -- United States -- History.
Corporation law -- United States -- History.
Commercial law -- United States -- History.
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)
Cravath, Paul D. (Paul Drennan), 1861-1940.
Corporate lawyers -- United States -- History.
Corporation law -- United States -- History.
Commercial law -- United States -- History.
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN:
9781524743253 (hc)
Availability | |||
---|---|---|---|
Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BUSINESS Oll | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-418) and index.