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“[Thomas] Lamont agreed to join JPM with one condition: “He wanted three months of vacation a year. Travel, he explained to Morgan, was essential to understanding the world and would therefore be valuable to his work at JP Morgan.”

Back when it took 8 days to travel between NYC and Paris via boat, three months doesn’t seem excessive.

For the record: I will not be roasting an NYC pigeon to feed my family. But so far I like what I’ve read.

It’s hard not to be entertained (so far!) by a book that includes the phrase, “Our collective love language appears to be talking shit about each other.”

I can only hope to say a word with the same disdain as Stanley Tucci says “sweatpants.”

So far, this is a pretty vicious book. I think it’s impossible for any of this information to be new to anyone who lived through the second half of the Twentieth century, but the level of detail—and the vitriol in which it’s given—is a lot.

“There are two people in this world: those who enjoy fart jokes and those who don’t.” - Richard Holbrooke