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The Last Tycoons William D. Cohan

The Last Tycoons By William D. Cohan

The Last Tycoons by William D. Cohan


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Summary

Tells the story of the world's elite and legendary investment bank - and the men who reigned over it all. In this title, the author himself a former high-level Wall Street banker, takes us into their mysterious and secretive world, telling a story of ruthless ambition, whispered advice, explosive feuds, decadent excesses and unimaginable wealth.

The Last Tycoons Summary

The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. by William D. Cohan

William D. Cohan's The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. is the astonishing story of the world's most elite and legendary investment bank - and the men who reigned over it all.

For over 150 years Lazard Freres had stood apart from other Wall Street firms by offering ultra-wealthy clients the wisdom of its 'Great Men': from Felix Rohatyn, the escapee from Nazi-occupied France turned financial genius, to Michel David-Weill, the inscrutable French billionaire 'Sun King'; from Steve Rattner, the boy wonder from Long Island who clashed violently with the old guard, to larger-than-life CEO Bruce Wasserstein, 'Bid-Em-Up-Bruce', who broke with the bank's traditions and made himself billions in the process. They amassed unimaginable fortunes and would stop at nothing to make a deal, until their titanic egos started to jeopardize everything.

In The Last Tycoons William Cohan, himself a former high-level Wall Street banker, takes us into their mysterious and secretive world, telling a story of ruthless ambition, whispered advice, explosive feuds, glamorous mistresses, decadent excesses and unimaginable wealth.

'Spellbinding'
Financial Times

'A definitive account ... it lives up to the billing'
The Times

'Has sent a jolt through Lazard and the rest of Wall Street'
Wall Street Journal

William D. Cohan was an award-winning investigative journalist before embarking on a seventeen-year career as an investment banker on Wall Street. His first book, The Last Tycoons, about Lazard, won the 2007 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and was a New York Times bestseller. His second book, House of Cards, also a bestseller, is an account of the last days of Bear Stearns & Co. He is also the author of Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World.

The Last Tycoons Reviews

Riveting ... a genuine page-turner * Will Hutton *
Spellbinding * Financial Times *
A definitive account ... it lives up to the billing * The Times *
Has sent a jolt through Lazard and the rest of Wall Street * Wall Street Journal *
An epic * The New York Times *
Spellbinding * Financial Times *

About William D. Cohan

William D. Cohan was an award-winning investigative journalist before embarking on a seventeen-year career as an investment banker on Wall Street. He spent six years at Lazard Freres in New York and later became a Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co. He is a graduate of Duke University and received both an MS from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and an MBA from its Graduate School of Business. He lives in New York City and Columbia County, New York.

Additional information

GOR001232162
9780141036892
0141036893
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. by William D. Cohan
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
20080403
752
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