In The Dao of Capital, Spitznagel presents
the grand panoply of the history of investing, from dynastic China to late 19th - century Europe.
It has the effervescence of the
grand party scenes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, conjuring the striped tents as well as the
panoply of pinks and blues of Gatsby's tailor - made shirts from London in the closet that so enraptured Daisy when she took a tour of the mansion.