Conversation on the Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg
Join us for a discussion with NYU Wagner professor Mitchell L. Moss and author and veteran journalist Eleanor Randolph, who spent 26 years covering New York City politics at The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. In her new book, The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg Randolph offers a revealing portrait of one of the most influential, wealthy, and private public figures in the country. Randolph traces Bloomberg’s path from his modest Jewish working-class upbringing in Massachusetts to Wall Street, where Bloomberg was first a young hot shot at Salomon Brothers, and then in 1982 began creating the Bloomberg Terminal, a financial data machine that would revolutionize trading worldwide and make him one of the richest men in the world.