LOUIS RUKEYSER'S BOOK OF LISTS: THE BEST, THE WORST, AND THE FUNNIEST FROM THE WORLDS OF BUSINESS, FINANCE, AND POLITICS

Where are the top places in America to avoid bankers? Where are the healthiest places to live? What were the worst- performing NASDAQ stocks last year? And the best-performing? Who are the most generous people in America? What is the cost per victory in Major League Baseball? And in the NBA? Who are the highest-paid female executives? What is your risk of being audited by the IRS? What are some of the silliest laws in America? Which are America's fastest- growing companies?

The answers to these questions comprise just the merest fraction of the diverse and entertaining information in Louis Rukeyser's Book of Lists. Numbering 185 in all, these lists indicate the best, the worst, and the funniest from the worlds of business, finance, and politics. And who knows these worlds better than America's most-admired economic commentator, the highly respected host of Wall $treet Week With Louis Rukeyser, who now shares his wisdom in the very popular list form?

To add further to readers' enjoyment, a number of men and women also from these worlds were invited to contribute their own lists, among them William Simon, Donald Rumsfeld, Elaine Garzarelli, Arthur Levitt, Mary Farrell, Julius Westheimer, and Charles Schwab.

Louis Rukeyser's Book of Lists is perfect for browsing and makes a wonderful gift.

LOUIS RUKEYSER has been America's most trusted voice on economics and finance for two generations. His smash hit PBS program, Wall Street Week With Louis Rukeyser, draws more viewers than all other television shows about money combined. He has written best-selling books on both economics and investing, his monthly newsletters, Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street and Louis Rukeyser's Mutual Funds, have by far the biggest circulation in their field, and his annual investment conferences attract, by a wide margin, the largest crowds in the history of such "live" events. His unique combination of wit and wisdom has been described as an authentic treasure. The New York Times calls him "legendary," the San Francisco Examiner says he has consistently been "one of the most accurate economic forecasters in the country," and The Washington Post gives him the ultimate accolade: "everyone's favorite economic commentator."

"It all started with Moses, trundling down Mount Sinai with a list of the Lord's top ten Commandments. (Why not nine? Why not eleven? Somebody up there clearly knew what He was doing.) Moses' cargo became a paradigm for several millennia's worth of subsequent lists: it was brilliant, it was cogent, it was concise, and, in the clutch, it was widely ignored.

"Still, the human compulsion to make lists has been inextinguishable. Many of us could not get through a typically overcrowded day without first preparing a list of what we have to accomplish. Sometimes, by nightfall, we even get to cross off all the items, an achievement that should, in a more properly ordered world, entitle us to a half-holiday...So lists can be useful, instructive-and, perhaps most of all, fun." ~~~ from an Introductory Note from Lou