"A marvelous book....Dot.con will be read by generations of .... B-school graduates."
--Wall Street Journal
Publisher Web Site, February, 2004
Summary
The Internet stock bubble wasn't just about goggle-eyed day traderstrying to get rich on the Nasdaq and goateed
twenty-five-year-olds playing wannabe Bill Gates. It was also about an America that believed it had discovered
the secret of eternal prosperity: it said something about all of us, and what we thought about ourselves, as the
twenty-first century dawned. John Cassidy's Dot.con brings this tumultuous episode to life. Moving from the Cold
War Pentagon to Silicon Valley to Wall Street and into the homes of millions of Americans, Cassidy tells the story
of the great boom and bust in an authoritative and entertaining narrative. Featuring all the iconic figures of
the Internet era -- Marc Andreessen, Jeff Bezos, Steve Case, Alan Greenspan, and many others -- and with a new
Afterword on the aftermath of the bust, Dot.con is a panoramic and stirring account of human greed and gullibility.
