Steve Fraser: WALL STREET A CULTURAL HISTORY Z1 [2005] hardback ZIRIS Yves Saint Laurent is credited

Yves Saint Laurent is credited with the elevation of haute couture to fine art

"--Shannon Watters

Needful Things

A Hungarian Jew and a medical doctor

It's the story of endeavour and survival at the roof of the world

Steve Fraser: WALL STREET A CULTURAL HISTORY Z1 [2005] hardback ZIRIS Yves Saint Laurent is creditedFraser brilliantly traces the imaginative history of Wall Street through novels and plays and political polemics, in the great prose of Twain and Wharton, Melville and James and a host of other writers, but also remembers the screams of rage of forgotten and marginalized protestors against the colossus that grew big speculating with other people's money. He weaves together the history of cut throat business deals with the delirious image of the place