Capital Gainsmanship

Capital Gainsmanship"When i clean the bastards out, the stock goes up. What I want is the Capital Gains." With this simple credo, Alfons Landa, a Washington investor whom Fortune magazine regards as the craftiest proxy fighter in the nation, has crystalized for posterity the principal objective of many American financial tycoons in the year 1960.Realtor William Zeckendorf might not care to have his name mentioned in the same breath with that of Louis Wolfson, a man who has been branded...