The Devils Casino by Vicky Ward

The Devils Casino by Vicky Ward

The inside story of what really happened at Lehman Brothers andwhy it failedIn The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High StakesGames Played Inside Lehman Brothers, investigative writer andVanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward takes readers insideLehman's highly charged offices.

‘…her book glows because of the poignancy of the Mad Men-like human story at its core' (Spectator Business, June 2010). ‘…Ward skitters between financial reportage and human interest to tell a clear modern history of the cat with nine lives...' (The New Economy, July 2010). “A gripping, gossipy account of the rise and fall of Lehman Brothers which reads like a novel." (Financial Times Weekend, June 2010). '...lifts the lid on the extraordinary culture of a firm...' (TimesLive.co.za, March 2010). '...Ward sums up the high price - a life of isolation, backstabbing, and hypocrisy - paid by Lehman's better halves.' (Vanity Fair, April 2010). '...[an] entertaining account of Lehman's rise and fall...' (Spectator, April 2010). 'Ward takes you inside Lehman's highly charged offices.' (HereIsTheCity.com, March 2010).

VICKY WARD has been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2001, specializing in investigative reporting. She has profiled, among others, Jean-Marie Messier, Carly Fiorina, CIA agent Valerie Plame, businesswoman Louise MacBain, Morgan Stanley, the late Bruce Wasserstein, counterterrorism expert Rich-ard Clarke, Francois Pinault, the Getty, the Guggenheim, Fairfield Greenwich Group (a Madoff feeder fund), Brooke Astor, and Kate Moss. Ward is a weekly columnist for the Huffington Post and a contributor to CNBC. She was previously the executive editor of Talk magazine. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Financial Times, the London Times, and the Daily Telegraph. A native Briton, Ward was the runner-up for the Catherine Pakenham Award in 1994, Britain s most prestigious award for young women writers. She holds a master s degree in English literature from Cambridge University and has lived in New York City since 1997.

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ISBN 13	9780470540862
ISBN 10	0470540869
Title	The Devils Casino
Author	Vicky Ward
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	2010-03-18
Number of pages	288
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