Despite the financial turmoil, Goldman Sachs remains the leading investment bank in its field. It is known for its unique management culture, unconventional hiring methods, and the secrecy that surrounds it. In the book "The Partnership," Charles Ellis reveals its story. With unparalleled access to senior executives of this famously secretive company, Ellis explores the brilliant people who turned a marginal family business into a global giant, enduring crises, scandals, and disasters along the way. Among them are the smart yet abandoned student Sidney Weinberg, the innovative John Whitehead, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, and Lloyd Blankfein, the current CEO, who was raised in a working-class neighborhood. "The Partnership" reveals the shared values of intensive recruitment, discipline, and talent that have connected the people of Goldman Sachs—and made it endure.