I've read Securities Analysis front to back (yea, I know... I'm a devoted fan) and The Intelligent Investor, among several other books on corporate business valuation - just to set my credentials at the top.And I have to say, this is one of the most fun I've had reading a book in a while. While you may think Graham is horribly dry in his investment books--with his Victorian and impersonal English--here he does an excellent job at writing an entertaining narrative of his life. I actually found myself laughing-out-loud pretty hard at some of the lines in it. The 30-page introduction by Seymour Chatman is also well-written. It does a good job of summarizing and highlighting the book. I'd recommend you also read it. Even if you don't care about Graham, you can treat the book as an entertaining piece of fiction, if you like. The book is that much fun and the stories contained are sufficiently interesting by their own merit to keep any reader laughing, sobbing, and happily eager to read until the conclusion. There is no book preview on amazon, so I will use this review to explain the general contents of the book:Starting page - Chapter titlevii - Introduction by Seymour Chatman (roughly 30 pages long)1 - Childhood in New York19 - Family Tragedies and My Mother's Perseverance37 - At Public School55 - High School Days: Brooklyn and the Bronx73 - The Farmhand and The Mechanic93 - The College Student123 - My Career Begins141 - Early Years in Wall Street163 - The Beginnings of Real Success185 - The Great Bull Market of the 1920s: I Become a Near Millionaire199 - The Northern Pipeline Contest217 - Family and Other Affairs247 - The Midpoint of Life's Way: The Deluge Begins267 - The Road Back, 1933-1940279 - My "Career" as a Playwright293 - The Commodity Reserve Currency Plan309 - Epilogue: Benjamin Graham's Self-Portrait at Sixty-Three and his Eightieth Birthday SpeechThe post script contains:317 - Chronology327 - Notes337 - Bibliography of Writings by and about Benjamin Graham343 - IndexYou will see from the chapter list that this book contains NO investment advice. Please read any edition of "Securities Analysis" (except the 5th edition is not co-authored by Graham, but written exclusively by Dodd and a few other people) and "The Intelligent Investor" for Graham's counsel and instruction on investment analysis.

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