“Best common-sense investment advisor since Peter Lynch.”
—Tom Stemberg, cofounder of Staples
“This is the book that every grandparent (or parent) has always meant to write for their children… but has never found the time to do so.”
“It is a deep and cheerful probing of the psychology of personal investing from the point of view of someone who helps manage half a billion dollars of other people's money.”
—David Warsh, Boston Globe
“This splendid new novel…when he writes about class and tribalism, he does so with perfect pitch. Spooner is sometimes funny, often smart, but always wise.”
—Charles Kenny, The Boston Globe
“It’s about life. It’s about human nature. It’s also the best book I’ve read in years on the subject of the stock market.”
—Philadelphia Daily News
“Written with a grace and a love for people befitting a novelist. The Smart People Spooner knows are wonderfully outrageous, full of surprises, and eminently entertaining.”
—The Los Angeles Times
“Wow. What a book. Combining a breathtaking knowledge of international finance with an almost diabolical understanding of deviant personality, Spooner gives us a hero unique in contemporary adventure stories. A psychopath with a sense of humor.”
—Business Week
“I’d gladly start a fund to subsidize Spooner so he won’t need to waste time on piffling things like stock and bonds when he can be writing more novels.”
—The Kansas City Star
“(Reading this book) is to laugh all the way to the poorhouse.”
—Playboy Magazine
“No hawk or dove should be without a copy of Three Cheers For War In General.”
“A bold, outspoken, and sometimes outrageous novel, The Pheasant-Lined Vest of Charlie Freeman may be the worst thing to happen to Wall Street since Black Monday, 1929”