Anyone who works in the mutual fund industry will want to read this compelling biography of Paul Cabot, a Boston Brahmin and cofounder of one of the earliest "Boston style" mutual funds. It is a fascinating window on the origins of mutual funds, a topic inadequately treated by other historians. Read about early stock pickers when markets were largely unregulated and sufficiently inefficient that outperforming was as easy as visiting a few corporations and asking questions. Then there was the 1929 crash and Federal regulatory initiatives. Through it all, Cabot's life provides a front row seat. Highly recommended! ...