The Futures, written by Emily Lambert, a senior writer at Forbes magazine.
The Futures is a good book, especially if it is your first book into the history of the Chicago Exchanges. Emily Lambert does a good job at laying out some basic history of the exchanges and she organizes the chapters by commodity which is convenient. She makes the subject matter interesting by going through the list of the usual suspects, to her credit she also comes up with some people we don’t hear from much anymore like Maury Kravitz, she also describes his hunt for Genghis Khan’s treasure ,which I always thought was cool. What made the book interesting for me was that one of the characters in the book is Bill Henner a 3rd generation trader who happens to be a friend and a business associate of mine, It was nice to see him in the book.
Overall, It is a good book, though I wish it was a bit more balanced; She had the cigar smoke and pinky rings scene down, but I was hoping that she also included the positive aspects of what the Exchanges have to offer and the people who have dedicated their careers to working in them.
