
Blood Blood & Mutiny is the first and only book written about the venerable Wall Street firm established in 1935. Morgan Stanley valued its privacy so strictly that even when the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ron Chernow wrote The House of Morgan, the chairman of Morgan Stanley refused to be interviewed, and instructed every employee of the firm to follow his lead. In 2005, that same man, now the former chairman, along with the former president of Morgan Stanley and six other retired senior executives mounted a fight to force the board to fire Philip Purcell, the firm’s chairman and CEO…