The partnership: the making of Goldman Sachs

Beginnings

Disaster: Goldman Sachs Trading Corporation

The long road back

Ford: the largest IPO

Transition years

Gus Levy

The wreck of the Penn Central

Getting great at selling

Block trading: the risky business that roared

Revolution in investment banking

Principles

The two Johns

Bonds: the early years

Figuring out private client services

J. Aron: ugly duckling

Tender defense, a magic carpet

The uses and abuses of research

John Weinberg

Innocents abroad

Breaking and entering

How BP almost became a dry hole

Changing the guard

Transformation

False starts in investment management

Robert Maxwell, the client from hell

Making arbitrage a business

J'accuse

Building a global business

Steve quit!

Collecting the best

Jon Corzine

Long-term capital management

Coup

Getting investment management right

Paulson's disciplines

Lloyd Blankfein, risk manager.