The Chronicles Of Selig Cartwright, Goldman Sachs Washroom Attendant: Volume I
Book Details
Author(s)Michael Silverstein
PublisherSilverwood Publishing
ISBN / ASINB008A6Q3E8
ISBN-13978B008A6Q3E5
Sales Rank1,479,798
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Do we really need another serious and troubling book about Wall Street investment banks? Enough already! Let's have some fun instead. And fun is what you'll have reading The Chronicles Of Selig Cartwright, Goldman Sachs Washroom Attendant: Volume 1.
The choice of Goldman Sachs for this satirical jaunt was easy. Its failings and transgressions have probably been mentioned in the press more often of late than any other investment bank — though this may simply be a temporary distinction, given the behavior of the other institutions in the field.
And a washroom setting? The rich, it's often said, are different than the rest of us. Not in all ways, however. As poet Robert Burns famously noted: "A man's a man for all that." And there are few places where the similarities are more apparent than a washroom.
A washroom is thus the perfect setting to portray the economic two-tiering of American society — Wall Street and Main Street. A setting in which growing economic inequality could readily be juxtaposed with traditional American notions of social equality.
The encounters in these pages bring together a fictional Goldman Sachs washroom attendant named Selig Cartwright, and Selig's fictional boss, a self-important, massively overpaid, frequently digestively challenged, high-ranking Goldman executive, Mr. B. It's an Everyman meets Wall Streetman in a place where pretensions of superiority of any kind are impossible to retain for long.
All power to the washbasin and toilet stall-cleaning classes! Drop your bowl brush, Selig. You're on!
These encounters are not just humorous, it's worth noting. They are based on sound knowledge of Wall Street and its workings. Author Michael Silverstein is a former Bloomberg Financial News senior editor, and among his other credits, was National Public Radio's "Wall Street Poet."
The choice of Goldman Sachs for this satirical jaunt was easy. Its failings and transgressions have probably been mentioned in the press more often of late than any other investment bank — though this may simply be a temporary distinction, given the behavior of the other institutions in the field.
And a washroom setting? The rich, it's often said, are different than the rest of us. Not in all ways, however. As poet Robert Burns famously noted: "A man's a man for all that." And there are few places where the similarities are more apparent than a washroom.
A washroom is thus the perfect setting to portray the economic two-tiering of American society — Wall Street and Main Street. A setting in which growing economic inequality could readily be juxtaposed with traditional American notions of social equality.
The encounters in these pages bring together a fictional Goldman Sachs washroom attendant named Selig Cartwright, and Selig's fictional boss, a self-important, massively overpaid, frequently digestively challenged, high-ranking Goldman executive, Mr. B. It's an Everyman meets Wall Streetman in a place where pretensions of superiority of any kind are impossible to retain for long.
All power to the washbasin and toilet stall-cleaning classes! Drop your bowl brush, Selig. You're on!
These encounters are not just humorous, it's worth noting. They are based on sound knowledge of Wall Street and its workings. Author Michael Silverstein is a former Bloomberg Financial News senior editor, and among his other credits, was National Public Radio's "Wall Street Poet."
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