House of Cards by William D Cohan
It was Wall Street's toughest investment bank, taking risks where others feared to tread, run by testosterone-fuelled gamblers who hung a sign saying 'let's make nothing but money' over the trading floor. This book tells the outrageous story of how Wall Street's entire house of cards came crashing down.
It is too early to say who will emerge as the definitive chroniclers of this crisis, but this book by William Cohan.. seems likely to end up as one of the key texts * The Observer *
A riveting, blow-by-blow account * Economist *
Read it, learn and weep * Businessweek *
First drafts of history don't get much better than this * Bloomberg *
A fly-on-the-wall record ... Cohan is a master of this genre. He perfectly captures the raw voice of Wall Street ... like Damon Runyon updated by Martin Scorsese -- Martin Vander Weyer * Spectator Business *
A riveting, blow-by-blow account * Economist *
Read it, learn and weep * Businessweek *
First drafts of history don't get much better than this * Bloomberg *
A fly-on-the-wall record ... Cohan is a master of this genre. He perfectly captures the raw voice of Wall Street ... like Damon Runyon updated by Martin Scorsese -- Martin Vander Weyer * Spectator Business *
William Cohan is an award-winning journalist and veteran of Wall Street. His previous book, The Last Tycoons, won the 2007 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and was a New York Times bestseller. A regular on the pages of the Financial Times and Fortune, the deal for this book was big news in the Wall Street Journal.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141039596 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141039590 |
| Title | House of Cards |
| Author | William D Cohan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2010-02-04 |
| Number of pages | 608 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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