THE WHEELER DEALERS

by George Goodman ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

George Goodman is the author of A Time for Paris and The Bubble Makers, two unengaging bits of froth of which this book is another example. From a beginning tone which suggests one more story, half-amusing, half-sad, of young career people in New York this novel grows progressively zany and haphazard, again promising more than the author delivers. Molly Thatcher was a security analyst, a pioneer of her kind on the Street. Patronized and mistrusted in the masculine world of finance and about to get the gate she was assigned to unload the anonymous stock of Universal Widget. She formed a partnership with Henry Tyroon (whose only interest in Widget was Molly) an independent oil operator, blatantly Texan, who actually came from Boston and MIT. Avoiding all explanations as to the nature and function of a widget Molly and Henry manage to push the stock to the top of the Exchange and in the process involve themselves in an anti-trust suit when it seems that an apparent merger of Widget, General Motors and AT&T would be a disaster for the country. By the time that Molly and Henry have formed their own merger, the national furor had subsided and Widget had receeded to its own unobstrusive Stocks Not Traded existence. The moral of it all? ""..in the U.S. a profit is never without honor.

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Publisher: Doubleday

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1959

Categories: FICTION