Next Reading List: Beyond the Basics

The Rediscovered Benjamin Graham: Selected Writings of the Wall Street Legend

This book by Janet Lowe is compilation of Ben Graham’s selected writings. These lectures and articles were long forgotten. The author has found those and put into one book. Although these are very old by today’s standard if you are a value investor you will get a lot out of it. The book also contains his testimony to US congress. That contains few nuggets for new investors because people asking the questions were not finance kind.
His other articles written for various journals are equally educational even after all these years. They have certain enduring quality to them.
But the biggest value of this book in my opinion is that it offers his lectures during 1946-47 to New York Institute of Finance. Graham used to teach Security analysis course in the evening. Many like Walter Schloss had taken this course after WW II. The transcripts of many of those lectures and Q&A with students are included in the book. The careful reading of these lectures will reward the investors greatly. You feel like sitting in his class and Graham is teaching you. Those classroom lectures alone are worth many times the price of the book.

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