Liar's Poker

Two Cities, True Greed

Michael Lewis

Publisher: Coronet, 1989, 298 pages

ISBN: 0-340-53469-9

Keywords: Biography

Last modified: July 8, 2021, 11:13 p.m.

From mere trainee to lowly geed, 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…

  1. Liar's Poker
  2. Never Mention 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 Things Happen to Rich People

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Liar's Poker

Reviewed by Roland Buresund

OK ***** (5 out of 10)

Last modified: May 21, 2007, 3:09 a.m.

About the investment industry during the eigthies.

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