Liar's poker : the book that revealed the truth about London and Wall Street / Michael Lewis

By:

Lewis, Michael

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Hodder, 1989. London:Description: 298 pISBN:

9780340839966

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

332.620973 LEW-L

Contents:

1.Liar,s Poker-- 2.Never mantion money-- 3.Learning to love your corporate culture-- 4.Adult education-- 5.A brotherhood of hoods -- 6.The fat men and their marvellous money machine-- 7.The salomon diet-- 8.From geek to man-- 9.The art of war -- 10.How can we make you happier-- 11.When bad thing happen to rich people.

Summary: From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world's most powerful and profitable merchant bank. A true-life Bonfire of the Vanities, funny, frightening, breathless and heartless, his is a tale of hysterical greed and ambition set in an obsessed, enclosed world

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1.Liar,s Poker--
2.Never mantion money--
3.Learning to love your corporate culture--
4.Adult education--
5.A brotherhood of hoods --
6.The fat men and their marvellous money machine--
7.The salomon diet--
8.From geek to man--
9.The art of war --
10.How can we make you happier--
11.When bad thing happen to rich people.

From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world's most powerful and profitable merchant bank. A true-life Bonfire of the Vanities, funny, frightening, breathless and heartless, his is a tale of hysterical greed and ambition set in an obsessed, enclosed world

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