Peter Chapman (1) (1948–)

Very poor hodge-podge of a history. The author never really makes up his mind whether this is to be some sort of history of the Lehman Brothers firm, the Lehman family, or both. As the author of a book on the history of the United Fruit Company, he does his absolute damndest to work in that firm whenever possible, out of all proportion to its importance in the Lehman Brothers history. If you have read other books on the collapse of Lehman Brothers, frankly, the story is told better there; the last few chapters read like a cut-and-paste from other works. There's also a few strange editorial glitches that pop up here and there (my "favorites" are when Samuel Goldwyn is made to look like an MGM executive in the 1960s, and this phrase: "RCA, however, could not interest none of the big studios...") Go elsewhere if you want a coherent history of the firm.… (mehr)