John Birkelund, a Wall Street leader, got his grounding with studies of history and a “determined author-by-author assault” on literature. He was wary of M.B.A. degrees.
Born during the Depression, John Birkelund grew up in the Chicago suburb of Glencoe in a regimented household with an emotionally distant father. He found relief in bicycle trips to Lake Michigan beaches and later in what he called a “determined author-by-author assault” on literature.
Princeton University was his ticket to a broader world. He went on to serve as a U.S. Navy intelligence gatherer in Berlin, a New York-based representative of the Rothschild family and a CEO who revived the Wall Street firm Dillon, Read &...
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