Synopsis
In this entertaining chronicle, Nocera illuminates how the vision and ambition of pioneers like Charles Merrill, Gerry Tsai, Dee Hock, and Peter Lynch reshaped the American economy and brought the rewards-and risks-of financial opportunity to the middle class for the first time in history.
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"There isn't a reader who won't find himself or herself in . . . Nocera's fascinating [book]."
"["A Piece of the Action"] fills in what is literally thirty years of missing history to the story of postwar America."
"A riveting saga of the rise and rise of America's personal finance industry--and the ferocious innovators who built it."
"A very fine specimen of journalism . . . Nocera does succeed in breathing life into inanimate things . . . clear, accessible and engaging."
"Lively portraits of the legends of these financial industries . . . well-researched, tightly written, and full of eyewitness accounts."
"One of America's finest business writers has collided with one of America's biggest untold stories, and the result is, predictably, a smash hit. Joseph Nocera explains why you have become the financially obsessed creature you are, and if you have a moment to spare from adding your credit card bills to your stock market losses, you should listen to him."--Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short
"Nocera is one of the most gifted observers of the business world today. It is no surprise that he has produced the definitive history of the post-World War II revolution in personal fincance and made it both vivid and comprehensive."--Bryan Burrough, coauthor of Barbarians at the Gate
One of America s finest business writers has collided with one of America s biggest untold stories, and the result is, predictably, a smash hit. Joseph Nocera explains why you have become the financially obsessed creature you are, and if you have a moment to spare from adding your credit card bills to your stock market losses, you should listen to him. --Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short"
Nocera is one of the most gifted observers of the business world today. It is no surprise that he has produced the definitive history of the post-World War II revolution in personal fincance and made it both vivid and comprehensive. --Bryan Burrough, coauthor of Barbarians at the Gate"
Everyman as financier. That s the engaging and under-reported story that Joe Nocera shares with us in "A Piece of the Action." This is not financial history, not business history: It s a timely and superbly researched history of a dominant facet of modern American culture one that has changed how we act, what we worry about, and who we are. --Tom Peters, coauthor of In Search of Excellence"
About the Author
Joe Nocera is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. He was previously a business columnist for the Times and a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. He spent ten years at Fortune, where he rose to editorial director, and has written for numerous publications, including GQ, Esquire, and Newsweek. He has won three Gerald Loeb awards and three John Hancock awards for excellence in business journalism. His most recent book is the New York Times bestseller All the Devils Are Here, which he coauthored with Bethany McClean. He lives in New York.
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