"A well-written, fascinating memoir of a remarkable man of many parts, who arrived in the United States at age 9, fleeing the Holocaust. Almost single-handedly, he transformed a minor commodity exchange into the leading futures market in the world. His influence was and remains worldwide." --Milton Friedman Senior Research Fellow Hoover Institution, Stanford University

"There are only a few people who have revolutionized big portions of the business world. Warren Buffett did it in investing, Bill Gates in software. Leo Melamed, author of...

"Wow The CME Group Risk Management Handbook is a 'ten strike' and long overdue. A must-read and reference for the risk management industry "
--Jack Sandner, retired chairman of CME Group, member of the Executive Committee

"This is a powerful book for its integration of futures and options markets with an understanding of the whole economy. It is an eye-opener to see how central these markets are to our economic lives."
--Robert J. Shiller, Okun Professor of Economics, Yale University;...