by Ron Chernow
24. FO, August 1955.
25. Ibid.
26. Borkin, Robert R. Young, p. 217.
27. EU, March 1982.
28. Perry E. Hall, interview with author.
29. Ibid.
30. Ferris, Master Bankers, p. 94.
31. William Sword, interview with author.
32. Ibid.
33. Sheppard Poor, interview with author.
34. Perry E. Hall, interview with author.
35. CUOH-EB, pp. 13–14.
36. Gardner, Sterling Dollar Diplomacy, pp. 318–19.
37. Robert V. Lindsay, interview with author.
38. Anthony Weighill, interview with author.
39. RCL, Group 1030, Series I, Box 6, Folder 138, letter from Sir Edward R. Peacock, December 15, 1947.
40. Tim Collins, interview with author.
41. Macmillan, War Diaries, p. 190.
42. Sir David Basil Hill-Wood, interview with author.
43. Ibid.
44. II, March 1980.
45. Sampson, Anatomy of Britain, pp. 390–91.
46. Tim Collins, interview with author.
47. Wechsberg, Merchant Bankers, p. 204.
48. MGR, British Aluminium aide-mémoire, December 15, 1958.
49. FT, January 8, 1959.
50. DE, December 31, 1958.
51. II, March 1980.
52. Ibid.
53. Ferris, Master Bankers, p. 60.
54. Lord Stephen G. Catto, interview with author.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: JONAH
1. James R. Brugger, letter to author, November 21, 1988.
2. FO, August 1955.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. TI, November 2, 1959.
6. Ibid.
7. FB, December 15, 1958.
8. FO, August 1955.
9. DDE, Box 34, George Whitney Folder, letter to George Whitney, March 12, 1956.
10. Henry Clay Alexander, speech before the Executive’s Club of Chicago, December 7, 1956.
11. DDE, Box 34, George Whitney Folder, letter from George Whitney, December 26, 1956.
12. Ibid., memorandum from John Foster Dulles, January 4, 1957.
13. Zeckendorf, Zeckendorf, pp. 269–70.
14. FB, December 15, 1958.
15. Guido Verbeck, interview with author.
16. A. Bruce Brackenridge, interview with author.
17. Frank Rosenbach, interview with author.
18. Zeckendorf, Zeckendorf, pp. 269–70.
19. Robert V. Lindsay, interview with author.
20. C. Douglas Dillon, interview with author.
21. Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, vol. 1, p. 235.
22. NYT, December 15, 1969.
23. Hoopes, Steel Crisis, p. 21.
24. Mayer, Bankers, p. 199.
25. Bruce Nichols, interview with author.
26. Ralph F. Leach, interview with author.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. FO, December 1966.
31. NYT, November 29, 1959.
32. TSG, Oral History Project, p. 33.
33. Beschloss, May-Day, p. 281.
34. Joseph L. Ponce, interview with author.
35. McCartney, Friends in High Places, p. 138.
36. TSG, Box 12, memorandum to Henry Clay Alexander, June 4, 1962.
37. Evan Galbraith, interview with author.
38. A. Bruce Brackenridge, interview with author.
39. LBJ, letter from Thomas S. Gates, February 25, 1965.
40. Walter H. Page, interview with author.
41. Dr. Nicola Caiola, interview with author.
42. Evan Galbraith, interview with author.
43. Tim Collins, interview with author.
44. Institutional Investor, Way It Was, p. 339; Evan Galbraith, interview with author.
45. Tim Collins, interview with author.
46. Evan Galbraith, interview with author.
47. Jack Loughran, interview with author.
48. Ibid.
49. Institutional Investor, Way It Was, p. 806.
50. Jack Loughran, interview with author.
51. Alexander C. Tomlinson, interview with author.
52. Perry E. Hall, interview with author.
53. Jack Loughran, interview with author.
54. NYT, February 2, 1904.
55. Jack Loughran, interview with author.
56. Ibid.
57. NYT, March 30, 1982.
58. Ibid.
59. Robert J. Wynn, interview with author.
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: TABLOID
1. Hinton, Meyer, Rodd, Comments about the Morgan Bank, pp. 46–47.
2. Longstreet Hinton, interview with author.
3. Peter Vermilye, interview with author.
4. Longstreet Hinton, interview with author.
5. Ibid.
6. Kaplan and Welles, Money Managers, p. 157.
7. NYT, July 9, 1968.
8. BW, November 26, 1966.
9. Shulman, Billion Dollar Windfall, pp. 137–38.
10. Ibid., p. 156.
11. Jerry E. Bishop, letter to author, March 7, 1989.
12. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, In the Matter of Texas Gulf Sulphur Co., p. 5.
13. NYT, April 20, 1965.
14. Ibid., April 25, 1965.
15. Peter Vermilye, interview with author.
16. Longstreet Hinton, interview with author.
17. Patrick, Perpetual Jeopardy, p. 110.
18. NYT, April 21, 1965.
19. Robert V. Lindsay, interview with author.
20. Fallon and Srodes, Takeovers, p. 169.
21. Lord Stephen G. Catto, interview with author.
22. Sampson, New Anatomy of Britain, p. 549.
23. BBC-2 TV, July 18, 1968.
24. T, July 17, 1968.
25. FT, August 24, 1968.
26. ST, July 28, 1968.
27. Lord Stephen G. Catto, interview with author.
28. Bower, Maxwell, p. 126.
29. Lord Stephen G. Catto, interview with author.
30. Ibid.
31. O, January 5, 1969.
32. Kiernan, Citizen Murdoch, p. 94.
33. Ibid., p. 96.
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid., p. 97.
36. Haines, Maxwell, p. 361; O, January 5, 1969.
37. Haines, Maxwell, p. 360.
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: SAMURAI
1. BW, December 13, 1969.
2. EU, March 1982.
3. Alexander C. Tomlinson, interview with author.
4. FO, February 27, 1978.
5. NY, November 12, 1979.
6. BW, January 19, 1974.
7. Hoffman, Deal Makers, pp. 36–37.
8. FO, February 27, 1978.
9. BW, December 9, 1985.
10. Sheppard Poor, interview with author.
11. BW, December 9, 1985.
12. Institutional Investor, Way It Was, p. 101.
13. Morgan Stanley, Fiftieth Anniversary Review, p. 20.
14. Frederick H. Scholtz, interview with author.
15. Eugene Rotberg, interview with author.
16. BW, January 19, 1974.
17. II, June 1974.
18. Ibid.
19. Luis S. Mendez, interview with author.
20. David Bendall, interview with author.
21. Lord Stephen G. Catto, interview with author.
22. Ralph F. Leach, interview with author.
23. Guido Verbeck, interview with author.
24. Walter H. Page, interview with author.
25. David Bendall, interview with author.
26. Walter H. Page, interview with author.
27. Sheppard Poor, interview with author.
28. BW, January 19, 1974.
29. Jensen, Financiers, p. 21.
30. FO, February 27, 1978.
31. II, May 1979.
32. Haiberstam,
Reckoning, pp. 675–76.
33. Ferris, Master Bankers, p. 111.
34. NYT, August 28, 1974.
35. Brooks, Takeover Game, p. 4.
36. AL, November 1981.
37. Madrick, Taking America, p. 24.
38. NYT, May 17, 1978.
39. BW, December 14, 1974.
CHAPTER THIRTY: SHEIKS
1. FO, October, 1974.
2. Walter H. Page, interview with author.
3. WP, November 16, 1974.
4. William D. Toomey, letter to author, March 16, 1989.
5. Walter H. Page, interview with author.
6. Ibid.
7. NYT, September 12, 1976.
8. Emerson, House of Saud, p. 306.
9. Ibid., p. 308.
10. William H. Sword, interview with author.
11. Kessler, Richest Man in the World, p. 91.
12. Sampson, Changing Anatomy of Britain, p. 278.
13. Christopher Whittington, interview with author.
14. Ibid.
15. Herndon, Ford, pp. 238–39.
16. Ibid.
17. Max M. Fisher, letter to author, December 20, 1988.
18. FO, July 13, 1981.
19. Ellmore C. Patterson, interview with author.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Simon, Time for Truth, p. 159.
24. U.S. Congress, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, New York City Fiscal Crisis, p. 644.
25. Ellmore C. Patterson, interview with author.
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: TOMBSTONES
1. AM, July 1979.
2. WSJ, June 27, 1985.
3. NYT, May 25, 1975.
4. EU, March 1982.
5. NYT, October 8, 1979.
6. WSJ, July 17, 1980.
7. Ibid.
8. NYT, May 14, 1973.
9. II, June 1974.
10. WSJ, October 26, 1978.
11. Ibid.
12. WSJ, October 26, 1978.
13. II, February 1979.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. WSJ, July 17, 1980.
18. WSJ, February 13, 1981.
19. Hoffman, Deal Makers, p. 165.
20. Ibid., p. 173.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. WSJ, February 13, 1981.
24. Hoffman, Deal Makers, p. 176.
25. WSJ, February 13, 1981.
26. EU, March 1982.
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: SAMBA
1. BW. November 3, 1975.
2. Ibid.
3. A. Bruce Brackenridge, interview with author.
4. Ibid.
5. II, October 10, 1976.
6. II, March 1979.
7. Walter H. Page, interview with author.
8. A. Bruce Brackenridge, interview with author.
9. WSJ, August 30, 1983.
10. Guy Huntrods, interview with author.
11. TI, January 10, 1983.
12. BW, June 2, 1986.
13. Anthony M. Solomon, interview with author.
14. Lampert, Behind Closed Doors, p. 176.
15. FO. November 1, 1982.
16. BW, October 3, 1983.
17. Lewis T. Preston, comments made at J. P. Morgan & Co. Annual Meeting, April 12, 1989.
18. WSJ, October 10, 1986.
19. NYT, October 9, 1986.
20. WSJ, February 2, 1987.
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: TRADERS
1. NYT, September 15, 1981.
2. Robert V. Lindsay, interview with author.
3. Lewis T. Preston, interview with author.
4. Lord Stephen G. Catto, interview with author.
5. FO, April 28, 1986.
6. II, January 1980.
7. Lewis T. Preston, interview with author.
8. NYT, April 10, 1983.
9. Ibid.
10. BW, October 20, 1986.
11. David Taylor, interview with author.
12. Ibid.
13. Lewis T. Preston, interview with author.
14. Irvine Sprague, interview with author.
15. Ibid.
16. Sprague, Bailout, p. 158.
17. William M. Isaac, interview with author.
18. Lewis T. Preston, interview with author.
19. WSJ, June 21, 1982.
20. Ferris, Master Bankers, p. 154.
21. II, June 1982.
22. Brooks, Takeover Game, p. 115.
23. Ibid.
24. WSJ, June 27, 1989.
25. Ferris, Master Bankers, p. 155.
26. Jack Loughran, interview with author.
27. Robert A. Gerard, interview with author.
28. NYT, April 1, 1984.
29. 11, December 1978.
30. WSJ, June 27, 1985.
31. 11, November 1987.
32. Pickens, Boone, p. 172.
33. Ibid., p. 186.
34. NYT, December 7, 1984.
35. Pickens, Boone, p. 225.
36. 11, August 1980.
37. Ibid., September 1980.
38. WSJ, May 31, 1988.
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: BANG
1. FT, October 22, 1986.
2. E, July 4, 1987.
3. EU, February, 1987.
4. Fallon and Srodes, Takeovers, p. 169.
5. Ibid.
6. Pugh, Is Guinness Good for You’ p. 149.
7. B, July 1986.
8. Ibid.
9. BW, August 14, 1989.
10. Kochan and Pym, Guinness Affair, pp. 65–66.
11. Fallon and Srodes, Takeovers, p. 180.
12. Saunders, Nightmare, p. 142.
13. NYT, October 28, 1986.
14. E, February 21, 1987.
15. Pugh, Is Guinness Good for You? p. 138.
16. FT, January 27, 1987.
17. B, June 1987.
18. WSJ. January 21, 1987.
19. FT, December 4, 1986.
20. B, May 1986.
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: BULL
1. Institutional Investor, Way It Was, p. 604.
2. NYT, May 17, 1978.
3. FO, February 17, 1986.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. WSJ, June 8, 1989.
