February 27th, 2009 
Yong-Long Lai
As you might have figured out, I’ve been doing a lot of reading on Benjamin Graham and many of his material… I just found out that the book “Security Analysis – Benjamin Graham and David Dodd” actually made an appearance in the film, “The Pursuit of Happyness”
“The 5th edition of Security Analysis made an appearance in the film, The Pursuit of Happyness. The film prominently showed the 5th edition of Security Analysis — black jacket, white, gold, red fonts — as the one that Dean Witter Reynolds required 60 unpaid interns to study for six months. The intern portion of the story is circa 1981; the 5th edition of Security Analysis was published in 1988; therefore, the film production prop department used the wrong edition.” – wikipedia
Anyways, I thought it was quite interesting that it was show-cased in the movie…
Security Analysis – Benjamin Graham is actually a very comprehensive book, it’s pretty much all the details of The Intelligent Investor. I think it’ll be one of the next book I’ll be reading (depending on whether I feel like getting into the details etc). If you’re thinking of picking up this book, make sure you get the 6th Edition (publish in 2008) because it has all the new commentary which is more relevant to our current economy etc.
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