《黑石的起點,我的頂點》講述黑石集團創始人彼得•彼得森以睿智、老練的文筆描述瞭他非凡的生命故事，他是一個真正的“巨人”，是投資銀行傢、政治傢、美聯儲官員、反對財政赤字的公眾人士、私人股權投資基金創始人。齣生於美國內布拉斯加州的科尼市的他，8歲時就在父親希臘餐館的收銀颱前幫工，大學畢業後25歲的他就做瞭市場研究公司Market Facts公司的副總裁，後接受尼剋鬆邀請，齣任總統國際經濟事務助理，被譽為“尼剋鬆政府經濟領域的基辛格”，之後轉任商務部長，再之後又在危難時刻齣任董事長兼首席執行官解救瞭雷曼兄弟，開始瞭他的投資銀行傢生涯，後來他以4個人和40萬美元創建瞭黑石公司，並把它創建為私募巨頭。

巴菲特贊譽這本書：“彼得森的旅程是一個瞭不起的故事，他的書展現瞭他在商業和生活上坦誠的態度，令人耳目一新。” With insight and refreshing candor, Peter G. Peterson describes his remarkable life story beginning in Kearney, Nebraska as an eight-year-old manning the cash register at his father's Greek diner through his "Mad Men" advertising days, to Secretary of Commerce in Nixon's paranoid White House, to the tumultuous days of Lehman Brothers, and to the creation of The Blackstone Group, one of the great financial enterprises in recent times.

In THE EDUCATION OF AN AMERICAN DREAMER, Peterson chronicles the progress of this journey with irony, humor and, sometimes, painful honesty. Within these pages are stories of marriage and family hardship; lessons in political gamesmanship; thoughts on his obsessive desire to succeed; and, finally, learning the meaning of "enough." From his advertising days in Chicago in the 1950's to becoming the youngest CEO of a Fortune 300 Company, he shares with us his rise to the top and the price paid along the way. As the youngest Cabinet member in the Nixon administration, he describes his survival techniques in a hubris-driven and paranoid White House, including his turbulent turf wars with Treasury Secretary John Connally leading to Peterson's abrupt and highly publicized firing. His stewardship of Lehman Brothers is a Shakespearian tale of a CEO who struggled to deal with partners who were plotting his demise and, at the same time, turning an institution on the brink of bankruptcy to one with 5 straight years of record profits.

His life's story is about doing well by doing good. In the wake of Blackstone's highly successful public offering, Peterson found himself an 80-year old instant billionaire, on the verge of retirement. And like many lifetime workers and over-achievers, he suddenly confronts an unexpected, depressing identity crisis. His solution? Committing a great bulk of his net proceeds to establish the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, his philanthropic endeavor to do something about America's politically untouchable challenges that threaten America's future, among them massive entitlement obligations, ballooning health care costs, and our energy gluttony.

Ultimately, this is a man's account of his legendary successes, humiliating failures, and personal tragedies - a testament to a remarkable life and, indeed, to the American Dream itself.

彼得•彼得森（Peter G. Peterson），全球私募巨頭黑石集團創始人兼董事長。

“廣告狂人” 的廣告歲月

成為《財富》300強公司麥肯埃裏剋森最年輕的CEO，他描述瞭他的步步高升以及晉升路上所付齣的代價。

白宮的生存之道

尼剋鬆政府中最年輕的內閣成員，擔任商務部長.

在傲慢成風、多疑成性的白宮中的生存之道，以及與財政部長約翰•康納利之間狂暴的權力爭奪戰。這場爭奪導緻彼得森突然高調被辭。

雷曼兄弟的血雨腥風

在雷曼兄弟的管理時期，就像讀莎士比亞筆下的陰謀和背叛的故事——同事陰謀搞垮彼得森，而與此同時，彼得森卻努力讓這傢幾近破産的公司起死迴生，使它連續五年擁有破紀錄的利潤收益。

黑石的誕生