More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite.

MALLABY, Sebastian.

Item Number: 102771

New York: The Penguin Press, 2010.

First edition of this “splendid…the definitive history of the hedge fund, a compelling narrative full of larger-than-life characters and dramatic tales” (The Washington Post). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Sebastian Mallaby on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Darren Haffar and Tal Goretsky.

Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge fund moguls have become the It Boys of twenty-first- century capitalism. Beating the market was long thought to be impossible, but hedge funds cracked its mysteries and made fortunes in the process. Drawing on his unprecedented access to the industry, esteemed financial writer Sebastian Mallaby tells the inside story of the hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s to their role in the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009.