TY - BOOK AU - Lewis, Michael TI - Liar's poker: the book that revealed the truth about London and Wall Street SN - 9780340839966 U1 - 332.620973 PY - 1989/// CY - London PB - Hodder KW - GEN N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -