This biography of Bernard Baruch considered to be renowned as the definitive story about the notorious financial wizard and presidential advisor. Baruch's political policies are discussed briefly, and James Grant includes a detailed account of Baruch's trading and investment gains and losses.

JAMES GRANT, the author of Money of the Mind, among other books, is the founder and editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer. He is a weekly commentator on CNN and a longtime panelist on Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser.