Dot.Con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era - Softcover

Cassidy, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060008814 ISBN 13: 9780060008819

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2003

Synopsis

The Internet stock bubble wasn't just about goggle-eyed day traderstrying to get rich on the Nasdaq and goateed twenty-five-year-oldsplaying wannabe Bill Gates. It was also about an America that believed it had discovered the secret of eternal prosperity: it said something about all of us, and what we thought about ourselves, as the twenty-first century dawned. John Cassidy's Dot.con brings this tumultuous episode to life. Moving from the Cold War Pentagon to Silicon Valley to Wall Street and into the homes of millions of Americans, Cassidy tells the story of the great boom and bust in an authoritative and entertaining narrative. Featuring all the iconic figures of the Internet era - Marc Andreessen, Jeff Bezos, Steve Case, Alan Greenspan, and many others - and with a new Afterword on the aftermath of the bust, Dot.con is a panoramic and stirring account of human greed and gullibility.

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Review:

?The first good book about one of capitalism's most embarrassing debacles.?Salon.com ?A marvelous book. . . . Dot.con will be read by generations of .... B-school graduates.?Wall Street Journal ?Admirably lucid and comprehensive.?The Guardian (London) John Cassidy is one of the world's best financial journalists. Dot.con [is] compelling.Rupert Murdoch ?John Cassidy's [Dot.con] deserves to be the boom's standard account. It is informative, perceptive, and gracefully written.?New Republic

"Admirably lucid and comprehensive." -- The Guardian (London)

"Admirably lucid and comprehensive."--The Guardian (London)

"A marvelous book. . . . Dot.con will be read by generations of .... B-school graduates."--Wall Street Journal

"John Cassidy's [Dot.con] deserves to be the boom's standard account. It is informative, perceptive, and gracefully written."--New Republic

"The first good book about one of capitalism's most embarrassing debacles."--Salon.com

John Cassidy is one of the world's best financial journalists. Dot.con [is] compelling.--Rupert Murdoch

"Shrewd and entertaining...thoroughly persuasive."--The Economist

The first good book about one of capitalism s most embarrassing debacles. --Salon.com"

A marvelous book. . . . Dot.con will be read by generations of .... B-school graduates. --Wall Street Journal"

About the Author:

John Cassidy, one of the country's leading business journalists, has been a staff writer at the New Yorker for six years, covering economics and finance. Previously he was business editor of the Sunday Times (London) and deputy editor of the New York Post. He lives in New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060008814
• ISBN 13: 9780060008819
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416