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Liar's Poker

Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street

by Michael Lewis

ISBN: 0393027503
ISBN-13: 9780393027501
Format: Hardcover

Summary

What does it take to make it in the high-stress, ethically-questionable world of junk bond selling? Lewis's account of life from his tenure at Salomon Brothers provides a humorous and candid profile of 1980s cutthroat business. LIAR'S POKER airs all the bad laundry of this once powerful brokerage house as it slowly collapses under the weight of its own greed.

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"Most books about business are boring. A great exception [is] LIAR'S POKER, Michael Lewis's funny, knowing depiction of the monstrously giddy frat-guy world of investment banking." -- Kurt Andersen

-- New York Times Book Review

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Published date: 1989
Size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.35 pounds

Publisher's Notes

In this shrewd and wickedly funny book, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through the jungle of a powerful investment bank. In two short years he rose from trainee to a bond salesman who could turn over millions of dollars' worth of doubtful bonds with just one call.

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