Dwight "Bill" Baum is the story of a life fully lived. This book takes the reader from Baum's birth in Syracuse, NY in 1912 through the 20th century. The reader will enjoy the late entrepreneur's tremendous ability of recall. We share his sense of nostalgia as he tells about visiting his grandfather's farm and growing up in a loving family with a famous architect father. Bill Baum had an insatiable appetite for learning. After earning degrees from Cornell and Harvard, he worked for the British Air Commission during WWII. For the next fifty years, he was a pioneer  in investment banking and was an integral player in some of the most intriguing acquisitions in the history of finance. Four months into this project, we lost this incredibly gifted and exceptional man and this book honors a life well lived.