The stock picker

"This book is not an investing how-to: instead it is a financial history straight from the horse's mouth. While there is much for investors to learn from, it is also an evocative window into a vanished City of stock jobbers, messenger boys, luncheon vouchers and ledger-keepers - not to mention financial crises, booms and busts, and the life and death of companies great and small." -- P.[4] of cover.