Author Background:

Michael Yogg is trained as both a historian and an investor.  He holds three degrees in history from Yale and Harvard and worked in the investment business in Boston from 1978 until 2012, in positions ranging from analyst and research director to portfolio manager and chief investment officer.  Before that he taught history at Harvard, and before that served as an officer in the U.S. Navy.  He knew Paul Cabot personally from 1978 to 1994.