Fidelity's world

Fidelity Investments has more than 8 million individual and corporate accounts worth $400 billion, making it the largest mutual fund company in the country. But for all its power and influence, Fidelity remains a largely unexamined institution. Fidelity's World takes readers behind the polished public relations image and examines the private faces of Fidelity: the personalities of the two eccentric but little-known men who built the empire, the people they recruited to turn their ideas into reality, and the methods - sometimes subtle, occasionally brash and brutal - that they have used to…