Name: Liar's Poker
ISBN: 9780393338690

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Liar's Poker

Michael Lewis

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Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street's premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush. Liar's Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied years--a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business. From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game of bluffing and deception, here is Michael Lewis's knowing and hilarious insider's account of an unprecedented era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune.

Book Details

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: Mar 1st, 2010
Pages: 320
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.22in - 5.54in - 0.76in - 0.56lb
EAN: 9780393338690
Categories: • Business• Investments & Securities - General• Finance - General

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About the Author

Lewis, Michael: - Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, The Undoing Project, and The Fifth Risk. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his family.

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"Considered the high finance memoir, Liar’s Poker is more like a survey course of all of the… sliminess of eighties finance… Lit with shocking characters spewing unforgettable lines, and engrossing from cover to cover, it also serves as a primer on the history of finance…"

– Andrew Lipstein is a writer.

Ian Fraser is a business journalist.

Michael Lewis’s Liar’s Poker, Bryan Burrough and John Helyar’s Barbarians at the Gate and Philip Augar’s The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism were books that inspired me to write Shredded! @EdinburghLoM https://t.co/biuyvtJjsa

London Bureau Chief, TheStreet; Ex-ante antediluvian. "I got nasty habits. I take tea at three .."

"There were even occasional rumors, probably started by the traders, than all the salespeople were going to be fired, and the firm would simply trade in a blissful vacuum. Who needed the f***king customers anyway?" --Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker https://t.co/KYimWqFmgS

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Praise for this book

The funniest book on Wall Street I've ever read.--Tom Wolfe

Often profane, always hilarious, right on the mark.-- "People"

So memorable and alive . . . one of those rare works that encapsulate and define an era.-- "Fortune"

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Ian Fraser is a business journalist.

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