Harald Paumgarten

The best book I have ever read on the art of investment banking by an actual operator/participant dealing with clients, not a journalist's indirect take on the presumed glamour of the activity. The biographical narrative touches on many of the fine measures needed to be taken in achieving success with the most challenging relations with entrepreneurs and deeply egotistical childlike corporate officer in the span of the most important moments of their financial lives. The book also describes Wall Street investment banking houses over time, political participation and private matters pulling the autobiographical structure together. But above all a genuinely delightful read.