The New Crowd: The Changing of the Jewish Guard on Wall Street

by Judith Ramsey Ehrlich, Barry J. Rehfeld

Portrays the lives of leading Jewish entrepreneurs and their firms as they rose from postwar America to transform the face of American business and attain success on Wall Street.

Genres: History, Business

444 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1989

Reviews

[Lester Nathan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good book, but now over 35 years old, so most of the main protagonists are either retired or dead. It covers an exciting period on Wall Street, the 60s, 70s and 80s.
For me, the authors spend too much time writing about the luxury items purchased and displayed in wealthy people's homes. I am more interested in how the businesses were run, the big mergers and the transgressions, e.g. Ivan Boesky.
No mention is made of "Wall Street" the movie.

[Joel · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is 31 years since this was written, but actually still many of the institutions and personalities are known. This provides a more general background to the environment in which the events of books like Liar’s Poker, Barbarians at the Gates and the Predators Ball occurred, and which inspired the depiction of Gordon Gekko in Wall Street.