A history of the United States Navy - Tapa dura

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Roy C. Smith, an Annapolis graduate, was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs for twenty years and has been a professor of entrepreneurship and finance at New York University's Stern School for the past fourteen years. He is the author of several books, including "The Global Bankers, The Money Wars," and "The Wealth Creators," He lives in Montclair, New Jersey.