Sol M. Linowitz, Author, Martin Mayer, Author Scribner Book Company $25 (273p) ISBN 978-0-684-19416-5
Profoundly perturbed by what he considers the degeneration of the legal profession that has accompanied its growth and specialization in the last 50 years, Linowitz, a Washington, D.C., attorney who has served three administrations, forcefully...
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Martin Mayer, Author . Free Press $27.50 (368p) ISBN 978-0-684-84740-5
To most investors, the Fed is one person—Chairman Alan Greenspan—whose job is to set interest rates. In this entertaining and enlightening account, popular financial journalist Mayer (The Bankers; The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery) traces...
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Martin Mayer, Author . St. Martin's/Talley $27.95 (450p) ISBN 978-0-312-28975-1
Mayer believes our court system is shrouded in an unhealthy secretiveness: "The truth is that judges do not want to talk to the outside world about what it is they do." Clearly written and based on a broad range of knowledge about the U.S....
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Martin Mayer, Author Doubleday Books $18.95 (348p) ISBN 978-0-385-18983-5
Mayer (The Lawyers, The Bankers, The Diplomats here holds a magnifying glass on the news media of the recent past, the present and presumed future. He has researched carefully and is particularly impressive in detailing the steps by which radio news
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Martin Mayer, Author Harvard Business School Press $16.95 (345p) ISBN 978-0-87584-371-1
Veteran journalist Mayer gives an overview of the news media's history and current structure. (Feb.)
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Martin Mayer, Author W. W. Norton & Company $18.95 (303p) ISBN 978-0-393-02602-3
Recent Wall Street insider-trading scandals are only the tip of the iceberg, notes bestselling financial author Mayer ( The Bankers , The Lawyers ) in this penetrating study of world equity, commodity and currency trading prior to the October 1987...
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Martin Mayer, Author Little Brown and Company $22.95 (269p) ISBN 978-0-316-55154-0
Mayer ( The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry ) here describes with his customary authority how advertising in America has evolved from a creative art-of-persuasion industry based in mid-Manhattan to a ``fact-based'' product-moving service...
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Martin Mayer, Author W. W. Norton & Company $8.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-30652-1
Wall Street insider-trading scandals are only the tip of the iceberg, notes bestselling financial author Mayer ( The Bankers ; The Lawyers ) in what PW dubbed a ``penetrating study of world equity, commodity and currency trading prior to the October
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Martin Mayer, Author Scribner Book Company $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19152-2
Mayer ( The Bankers ) here sounds a roaring indictment of grand thievery in the deregulated savings and loan industry, for which taxpayers are being billed billions in restitution costs for scores of S & L failures. Citing Charles H. Keating's...
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Martin Mayer, Author Dutton Books $29.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-525-93865-1
Twenty-two years after his bestseller, The Bankers, Mayer returns with another kaleidoscopic look at the world of banking. While much is interesting here, the zigzag narrative can be tough to follow and seem oddly chatty. First, Mayer discusses the...
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Martin Mayer, Author, Alvin Karpis, Author Simon & Schuster $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-78187-3
In painstaking detail, bestselling business author Mayer ( The Bankers ) traces the spectacular rise of Wall Street's most powerful investment house and its ignominious fall in the 1991 scandal involving a $10 billion manipulation of the U.S....
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