Books by Donald L. Maggin and Complete Book Reviews
Donald L. Maggin, Author William Morrow & Company $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-12315-4
Maggin (Bankers, Builders, Knaves, and Thieves) chronicles the life and career of the great jazz saxophonist Getz (1927-1991), who was known especially for his sensuous tone and brilliant improvisations. Getz put his prodigious musical gifts to work
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Donald L. Maggin, Author HarperEntertainment $26.95 (422p) ISBN 978-0-688-17088-2
Following up on his 1996 biography, Stan Getz, Maggin offers this engrossing, if somewhat sanitized, portrait of jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie. The author, a journalist and concert promoter, follows his subject from the North Carolina cotton fields...
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Donald L. Maggin, Author McGraw-Hill/Contemporary $21.95 (8p) ISBN 978-0-8092-4547-5
Investment manager Maggin here offers an expanded version of a 1986 Management Review article, recounting in devastating detail the collapse of ESM Government Securities Inc., a Florida brokerage firm, in the mid-'80s. The ESM scam involved crooked...
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