June 25, 2006 - Warren Buffett, 75-year-old Berkshire Hathaway chairman and chief executive officer, the world's second- richest person, announced will give away 85 percent of his $44 billion fortune ($30.7 billion); biggest individual pledge to charity ever. Most of the money will go to the Bill and Melinda gates foundation started by Bill Gates; starting in July 2006 - annual gifts of company shares pledged to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (world's largest philanthropic organization), three organizations headed by his children and the family foundation renamed in honor of his late wife. Buffett placed three conditions on the gift to the Gates Foundation: Bill or Melinda Gates must be alive and active in the administration of the foundation; the organization must qualify as a charity; and the value of the gift must be spent in total, as well as at least 5 percent of the foundation's net assets. Gates foundation has made grant commitments since its inception of $10.5 billion; gave away $1.36 billion in 2005; major gifts and pledges included $1.5 billion to the Global Alliance for Vaccines, $1 billion to the United Negro College Fund and $258 million to the Malaria Vaccine Initiative.

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(Carl Frederik Tietgen), Ole Lange (2006). C.F.Tietgen - en Finansmand, hans Imperium og hans tid 1829-1901 (C. F. Tietgen - A Financier, His Empire and His Time 1829-1901). (København, Denmark: Gyldendal. Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy (Copenhagen Business School). Tietgen, Carl Frederik, 1829-1901; Store nordiske telegraf-selskab (Copenhagen, Denmark); Privatbanken i Kjøbenhavn; Capitalists and financiers--Denmark--History--19th century; Denmark--Foreign economic relations; Denmark--Commerce--History--19th century. Most distinctive personality in Danish business history.  

James D. Wolfensohn (2008). A Global Life: My Journey among Rich and Poor, from Wall Street to the World Bank. (New York, NY: PublicAffairs, 480 p.). Former President of the World Bank. Wolfensohn, James D.; World Bank--Presidents--Biography; Investment bankers--United States--Biography. Prominent banker in London, New York, Salomon Brothers, Chairman of Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center for many years, President of the World Bank from 1995 to 2005; assesses successes, failures, causes of continuing poverty. 

(Yerkes), John Franch (2006). Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes. (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press,, 384 p.). Yerkes, Charles Tyson, 1837-1905; Capitalists and financiers--United States--Biography; Street-railroads--Illinois--Chicago--Finance. Magnate behind the Chicago Loop Elevated, investor in the London Underground, namesake of the University of Chicago's observatory, vilified as Frank Cowperwood in Theodore Dreiser's trilogy, The Financier, The Titan, and The Stoic.

Frederick Lewis Allen (1935). Lords of Creation. (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 483 p.). Capitalists and financiers--United States; Finance--United States--History; Wall Street; Corporations--United States.

Clarence W. Barron ... edited and arr. by Arthur Pound and Samuel Taylor Moore (1930). They Told Barron; Conversations and Revelations of an American Pepys in Wall Street. (New York, NY: Harper Brothers, 372 p.). Capitalists and financiers; Wall street.

--- (1931). More They Told Barron; Conversations and Revelations of an American Pepys in Wall Street, The Notes of the Late Clarence W. Barron. (New York, NY: Harper, 334 p.). Capitalists and financiers; Wall Street.

Gregory S. Bell (2002). In the Black: A History of African Americans on Wall Street. (New York, NY: Wiley, 294 p.). African American capitalists and financiers--Biography; Securities industry--United States--History.

H. W. Brands (2006). The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years’ War over the American Dollar. (New York, NY: Norton, 239 p.). Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History (University of Texas). Capitalists and financiers--United States--History; Finance--United States--History. Five key players (1776 until eve of WW I) critical to formation of America's monetary system: 1) Alexander Hamilton, 2) Nicholas Biddle, 3) Jay Cooke,  4) Jay Gould, 5) J.P. Morgan.

John Brooks (1980). The Games Players: Tales of Men and Money. (New York, NY: Times Books, 376 p.). Capitalists and financiers; Finance.

Youssef Cassis; translator Jacqueline Collier (2006). Capitals of Capital: A History of International Financial Centres, 1780-2005. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 385 p.). Professor of Economic and Social History (University of Geneva). Financial institutions, International. Comparative history of most important centers of capital (New York, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Zurich, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore) -  in their economic, political, social, cultural context.

David Colbert (2001). Eyewitness to Wall Street: 400 Years of Dreamers, Schemers, Busts, and Booms. (New York: Broadway Books, 391 p.). Capitalists and financiers--United States--History; Securities--United States--History; Finance--United States--History; Wall Street (New York, NY). 

David J. Cowen and Robert E. Wright (2006). Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 216 p.). Hedge Fund Manager; Clinical Associate Professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business (New York University). Capitalists and financiers--United States--Biography; Businesspeople--United States--Biography. Different group of founding fathers forged the wealth and institutions necessary to transform the American colonies from a diffuse alliance of contending business interests into one cohesive economic superpower.

Edward Jerome Dies (1935). Street of Adventure. (Boston, MA: The Stratford Company, 216 p.). Capitalists and financiers--United States.

--- (1952). Behind the Wall Street Curtain. (Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press, 153 p.). Capitalists and financiers--United States; Finance--United States--History.

Paul Ferris (1984). Gentlemen of Fortune: The World's Merchant and Investment Bankers. (London, UK: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 260 p.). Investment bankers--Biography.

Kenneth L. Fisher (2007). 100 Minds That Made the Market. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 424 p.). Founder, Chairman, CEO of Fisher Investments, fourth longest-running columnist in Forbes' ninety-year history. Capitalists and financiers--United States--Biography. Pioneers of American financial history - drama, dirt, financial principles of inventive group of financial minds.

John T. Flynn (1941). Men of Wealth; The Story of Twelve Significant Fortunes from the Renaissance to the Present Day. (New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 531 p.). Capitalists and financiers--Biography. 

Matthew Josephson (1972). The Money Lords; The Great Finance Capitalists, 1925-1950. (New York, NY: Weybright & Talley, 374 p.). Capitalists and Financiers-United States.

Henry Kaufman (2000). On Money and Markets: A Wall Street Memoir. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 388 p.). Kaufman, Henry; Capitalists and financiers--United States--Biography; Finance--United States--History--20th century.

Edward Chase Kirkland (1990). Dream and Thought in the Business Community, 1860-1900. (Chicago, DC: I.R. Dee, 175 p. [orig. pub. 1956]). Capitalists and financiers--United States--History--19th century; Industries--United States--History--19th century; Railroads--United States--History--19th century.

Ferdinand Lundberg (1960). America's 60 Families. (New York, NY: Citadel Press, 578 p. [orig. pub. 1938]). Capitalists and financiers--United States; Finance--United States.

Gerald McKnight (1972). The Fortunemakers. (London, UK: Joseph, 224 p.). Capitalists and financiers--England--London.

John Moody (1919). The Masters of Capital; A Chronicle of Wall Street. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 234 p.). Capitalists and financiers--United States; Wall Street; Finance--United States.

Joseph Nocera (2008). Good Guys and Bad Guys: Behind the Scenes with the Saints and Scoundrels of American Business (and everything in between). (New York, NY: Portfolio, 304 p.). Business Columnist (The New York Times). Businessmen--United States; Capitalists and financiers--United States; Executives--United States; Finance--United States; Journalism, Commercial--United States. Good guys, bad guys in business - not as they seem; surprisingly good qualities in classic villains (junk bond king Michael Milken, stock analyst Henry Blodget); some widely admired business celebrities (Steve Jobs) not quite good guys they appear to be; perspective on some of today’s biggest controversies (global warming, Apple’s iPhone, CEO compensation, tobacco industry, short sellers, more).

John Lloyd Parker (1932). Unmasking Wall Street. (Boston, MA: The Stratford Co., 223 p.). New York Stock Exchange; Wall Street; Capitalists and financiers -- United States.

Dana Lee Thomas (1972). The Money Crowd. (New York, NY: Putnam, 365 p.). Capitalists and financiers; International finance; Success.

John Train (2000). Money Masters of Our Time. (New York, NY: HarperBusiness, 388 p.). Capitalists and financiers--United States--Biography; Investments--United States.

Richard Whittingham (2003). Boy Wonder of Wall Street: The Life & Times of Financier Eddie Gilbert. (New York, NY: Texere, 422 p.). Gilbert, Eddie; Capitalists and financiers--United States--Biography.

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