Liar's Poker
- ISBN-10
- 0340839961
- ISBN-13
- 9780340839966
- Series
- Liar's Poker
- Category
- Bonds
- Pages
- 298
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Author
- Michael Lewis
Description
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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- 2014-10-27
- 313 pages
- Paperback
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