Reviews for Investing for Middle America: John Elliott Tappan and the Origins of American Express Financ...

The average rating for Investing for Middle America: John Elliott Tappan and the Origins of American Express Financ... based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-06-16 00:00:00 Drezz Parker James Bond sleeps with a gun under his pillow. I sleep with OF&OD.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-09-05 00:00:00 Justin Trudel This is the second most over-rated book in all of finance*, yet it still should be on the shelf of every single person in the industry. Known universally simply as "Hull", this book is too dry, with too few details and too little mathematics, but it still pulls in the stars because of its fantastic breadth. This is also unambiguously the place for anyone beginning to learn the subject to begin. If you can work the problems at the end of each chapter in the book, you can get hired. The problem is that too many people think that is the end of the road instead of the meager, meager beginning. * See Dynamic Hedging Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options by Nassim Nicholas Taleb for the number one spot. While Hull is more highly regarded, thus potentially giving it farther to fall, nothing can touch the steaming pile of feces that is Dr. Taleb's opus for being undeserving of the sacrifice of the shade provided by the leaves of the trees cut down, chipped, pulped, bleached and pressed for the paper that it is printed upon.