The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I cannot conceive of a better book about Capitol Hill. An unforgettable, epic achievement in the art of biography.

We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario.

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I cannot conceive of a better book about Capitol Hill. An unforgettable, epic achievement in the art of biography.

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks.