This book was first completed in 1993. The standard I used was to include only people who had somehow, in some way, had some material impact on finance—and who were dead—under the assumptions I could be completely critical and that dead folk don't sue. Partly, as I said in the original introduction, that also helped me avoid writing about my own father, who I felt uncomfortable about discussing in his lifetime.
In the original introduction I cited interesting people who were living, including Warren Buffett, John lempleton, Ivan Boesky, and Michael Milken. They are still alive today. But, as I mentioned then, these more modern names have a great deal of media about them readily available, so I don't feel their exclusion from this book, alive or deceased, is a major disadvantage to readers.