The Davis Dynasty; Fifty Years of Successful Investing on Wall Street

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2001. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xvi, 304 pages. Illustrations. Foreword by Peter S. Lynch (Fidelity Management & Research Company). The Davis Family Timeline. Source Notes. Index. DJ states boldly on the front "Compliments of Davis." DJ has minor wear and soiling. Pages may be off color. John Rothchild is a noted writer specializing in financial matters. He has authored or co-authored over a dozen books on finance and investing, and is a former editor of Washington Monthly as well as a former columnist for Time and Fortune. Rothchild also assisted Marjory Stoneman Douglas with her autobiography, Voice of the River. A half-century of Wall Street history as seen through the lives of its most illustrious family. This compelling new narrative from bestselling author John Rothchild tells the story of three generations of the legendary Davis family, who rank among the most successful investors in the history of the Street. Rothchild chronicles the financial escapades of this eccentric, pioneering clan, providing a vivid portrait of fifty years of Wall Street history along the way. Rothchild shadows the Davis family's holdings through two lengthy bull markets, two savage and seven mild bear markets, one crash, and twenty-five corrections and, in the process, reveals the strategies behind the family's uncanny ability to consistently beat the markets. The Davis Dynasty begins in 1947, the year Shelby Davis, armed with $50,000 of his wife's money, took the plunge into stock investing. By the time he died in 1994, he had multiplied his wife's original stake 8,000 times. His son, Shelby, established one of the most successful funds of the past thirty years. The final characters are grandsons Chris and Andrew who both went on to become investment luminaries in their own right.