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The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm
by Robert F. Bruner, Sean D. Carr
from Wiley
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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The more things change, the more they remain the same 
Financial history is fascinating precisely because it documents simularities with the present, even while the products or organizational mechanisms of the time are different; this book is great for this moment of credit contraction and fear in the 21st century, a hundred years after the documented events.
Reading about JP Morgan (the person) meeting with the various bank and trust company heads, and bringing in Teddy Roosevelt as he felt relevant, reminded me both of the behind-doors funding... more info
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Great Background on the Industry Leaders of the Time! 
This book might as well have been named: "How J.P. Morgan saved the world from crisis." It was very well written and very interesting. I thought it was great that the author gave us a background on the major industry leaders at this time as they were more powerful than the U.S. Government (financially anyways). This time was a whole different time and I was immersed into the story throughout the book and wanted more at the end.
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Panic of 1907: History and Lessons
The Panic of 1907 begins with the roaring economy at the time---the boom that always comes before the bust. Then comes the initial shock---the San Francisco Earthquake---which shook not only the ground and brought down the buildings but put new strains on an already stretched capital market with new demands for money.
The overstretched capital market exposed a short selling stock scam in the shares of United Copper Co., an "on the curb" or what we would call a "pink sheet" stock today. This had been... more info
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Learn from the past
This book gave me huge insight into our nation's current situation as the names may have changed the general issues have not and maybe we can learn from that.
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