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The Devil's Casino : Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers by Vicky Ward (2010, Hardcover)

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The inside story of what really happened at Lehman Brothers and why it failed In The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers, investigative writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward takes readers inside Lehman's highly charged offices. What Ward uncovers is a much bigger story than Lehman losing at the risky game of collateralized debt obligations, swaps, and leverage. A can't put it down page turner that opens the world of Wall Street to view unlike any book since Bonfire of the Vanities, except that The Devil's Casino isn't fiction. Details what went on behind-the-scenes the weekend Lehman Brothers failed, as well as inside Lehman during the twenty years preceding it Describes the feudal culture that proved both Lehman's strength and its Achilles' heel Written by Vicky Ward, one of today's most connected business and finance writers On Wall Street, Lehman Brothers was cheekily known as "the cat with nine lives." But as The Devil's Casino documents, this cat pushed its luck too far and died'the victim of men and women blinded by arrogance.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-10
0470540869
ISBN-13
9780470540862
eBay Product ID (ePID)
77395416

Product Key Features

Book Title
Devil's Casino : Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played inside Lehman Brothers
Author
Vicky Ward
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Banks & Banking, Economic History, Finance / General, General, Industries / Financial Services, Investments & Securities / General
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Business & Economics
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Hg5129.N5w37 2010
Reviews
&'She writes stylishly and she understands&â€¦that enduring literature is not created by unravelling transactions but by illuminating complex personalities.&' (Mail on Sunday, April 2010)., 'â€¦her book glows because of the poignancy of the Mad Men -like human story at its core.' (Spectator Business, June 2010). 'â€¦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,Â 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).
Table of Content
Cast of Characters. Prologue. Part One: The Ponderosa Boys. Chapter 1 A Long, Hot Summer. Chapter 2 The Beginning. Chapter 3 The Captain. Chapter 4 The ?Take-Under'. Chapter 5 Slamex. Chapter 6 The Phoenix Rises. Chapter 7 Independence Day. Chapter 8 The Stiletto. Chapter 9 The Ides of March. Chapter 10 Eulogies. Part Two: The Echo Chamber. Chapter 11 Russian Winter. Chapter 12 Lehman's Desperate Housewives. Chapter 13 The Young Lions. Chapter 14 9/11. Chapter 15 No Ordinary Joe. Chapter 16 The Talking Head. Chapter 17 The Sacrificial Ram. Chapter 18 Korea's Rising Sum. Chapter 19 The Wart on the End of Lehman's Nose. Chapter 20 Damned Flood? Chapter 21 Closing the Books. Epilogue. A Note About the Sources. Notes. References. Acknowledgments. Index.
Copyright Date
2010
Lccn
2010-000762
Dewey Decimal
332.660973
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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by judith4421Jan 04, 2012
Great reading keeps your interest with all the players.
A very interesting book about the rise and downfall of the Lehman Brothers. A true story that sounds like a fiction. Hard to believe they could bring our country to economic collapse.

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