Dot.Con
How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era
$51.94
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
13 May 2003
Summary
The Internet stock bubble wasn’t just about goggle-eyed day traders trying to get rich on the Nasdaq and goateed twenty-five-year-olds playing wannabe Bill Gates. It was also about an America that believed it had discovered the secret of eternal prosperity: it said something about all of us, and what we thought about ourselves, as the twenty-first century dawned. John Cassidy’s Dot.con brings this tumultuous episode to life. Moving from the Cold War Pentagon to Silicon Valley to Wall Street a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780060008819 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0060008814 |
| Author: | John Cassidy |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 13 May 2003 |
| Weight: | 313g |
| Dimensions: | 206mm x 138mm x 27mm |
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Critics Review
“A marvelous book… . Dot.con will be read by generations of Wharton and Harvard B-school graduates as yet unborn.” - Wall Street Journal
“A marvelous book… . Dot.con will be read by generations of …. B-school graduates.” - Wall Street Journal
“Admirably lucid and comprehensive.” - The Guardian (London)
John Cassidy is one of the world’s best financial journalists. Dot.con [is] compelling. - Rupert Murdoch
“John Cassidy’s [Dot.con] deserves to be the boom’s standard account. It is informative, perceptive, and gracefully written.” - New Republic
“Shrewd and entertaining…thoroughly persuasive.” - The Economist
“The first good book about one of capitalism’s most embarrassing debacles.” - Salon.com
About The Author
John Cassidy
John Cassidy, one of the country’s leading business journalists, has been a staff writer at the New Yorker for six years, covering economics and finance. Previously he was business editor of the Sunday Times (London) and deputy editor of the New York Post. He lives in New York.
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