House of Cards by William D Cohan

House of Cards by William D Cohan

In March 2008, Bear Stearns, a swashbuckling eighty-four-year-old financial institution, was forced to sell itself to JPMorgan Chase for an outrageously low price in a deal brokered by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who was desperately trying to prevent the impending catastrophic market crash. But mere months before, an industry-wide boom had the Bear clocking a record high stock price. How did a giant investment bank with $18 billion in cash on hand disappear in a mere ten days? In this tour de force, Cohan provides a minute-by-minute account of the events that brought America's second Gilded Age to an end. Filled with intimate portraits of the major players, high-end gossip, and smart financial analysis, House of Cards recounts in delicious narrative form the dramatic events behind the fall of Bear Stearns and what it revealed about the financial world's progression from irrational boom to cataclysmic bust. House of Cards is the Rosetta Stone for understanding the dramatic and the unprecedented events that have reshaped Wall Street and global finance in the past two years.

COHAN is the bestselling author of The Last Tycoons, which won the 2007 FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. He is a former top Wall Street investment banker. He writes for Vanity Fair, Fortune, ArtNews, The Financial Times, the Washington Post, and the Daily Beast, and is an online columnist for The New York Times. He's also a regular on CNN, Bloomberg TV, and CNBC, as well as a number of NPR broadcasts.

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ISBN 13	9780767930895
ISBN 10	0767930894
Title	House of Cards
Author	William D Cohan
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2010-02-09
Number of pages	608
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