The Pride

November 1, 2005
Set in New York City, this first novel focuses on African Americans with wealth and power, including a lawyer, a businesswoman, and an investment banker, who all have private dramas and secrets.

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January 1, 2006
Across America, there are African Americans who are successful at defying the color barrier and have become wealthy as investment bankers, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and corporate executives. Paul Taylor is a shrewd lawyer and businessman. After receiving news from a college buddy, he has an epiphany. At the funeral of a member of "the Pride," he invites three members to lunch and presents the pros and cons of merging their highly successful financial businesses into one black-owned financial powerhouse. Deirdre Douglas is Paul's ex-wife and owner of DBD Financial Advisors. Jerome Hardaway, the boy wonder of Wall Street, built the Hardaway Group THG into the second-leading black-owned investment firm in the U.S. within five years, and Gordon Stallworth Perkins, owner and chief executive of G. S. Perkins and Partners LLP, made it the largest black-owned investment banking firm in the U.S. The dealings and maneuvering of each player are told with intrigue and suspense. A great story!(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2006, American Library Association.)