Not the least of this book's appeal is that it is so strikingly diffrtent from the run-of-the-mill efforts dribbled out by the Well Street illiterati, just as Leon Levy stands out as a man conspicuously apart the ordinary successful investment professional. part financial memoir by an unfailinly curious and uncommonly insightful spectator, part subtle and pragmatic investment guide by a master investot, and part examiination of human psychology as one of the dominant moves and shakers of markets, this book is as removed from a dry-as -dust academic tratise as Heaven is from Hades. More than that, it's pure Leon: discutive at times, infotmed and witty, and absent the slighttest trace of condescension. And it is spiced from first to last with a iberal seasoning of anecdote about this tumultuous and extraordinary era's great financial personages and great financial rogues , many of whom Leon observed up close and with not afew of whom he engaged in hand to hand combat. But the real treat for the reader of The Mind of Wall Street is to get to knoe Leon Levy as the amiable, incredibly informed and brilliant soul we who have had the pleasure of his company all these years have the privilegr of knowing