A Boy From Brooklyn

A boy from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, grows up dodging trolley tracks and exploring marsh mud, then somehow finds himself on Wall Street trading desks, Irish hunt fields, Chinese deal trips, private jets, and, finally, a tennis court on Nantucket— serving to his son at eighty‑three.

Along the way he helps fuel the IPO boom, watches decimalization upend trading, walks unscathed through the dot‑com collapse and the Global Financial Crisis, and quietly winds down Maxim, the boutique firm that c...