House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street (Hardcover)

by William D. Cohan (Author)

Review

Praise for the New York Times bestseller THE LAST TYCOONS, winner of the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award

“Cohan’s
portrayal of the firm’s dominant partners—whose gargantuan appetites
and mercurial habits provide the unifying force behind the book’s
operatic melodramas— makes this an epic. . . . In fact, The Last Tycoons bears a striking resemblance to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon.”
—New York Times Book Review

“Breezy
and highly readable. . . . For those of us who enjoy high-level gossip
(most people) and an inside look at the machinations, triumphs,
failures, and foibles of some of Wall Street’s and America’s most
exalted personages, Cohan’s book is entertaining and seductively
engrossing.”
—Chicago Tribune

“Cohan’s thoroughness—he
interviewed over 100 current and former bankers and assorted
bigwigs—unearths a trove of colourful tidbits, many quite racy. . . .
Illuminating are Mr. Cohan’s descriptions of the scheming, politicking,
and general dysfunction that was Lazard.”
—Economist

“Cohan not only knows where the bodies are buried but got a guided tour of the graveyard.”
—Financial Times

“[The Last Tycoons] has sent a jolt through Lazard and the rest of Wall Street.”
—Wall Street Journal

–This text refers to the

Kindle Edition
edition.

Review
Praise for the New York Times bestseller THE LAST TYCOONS, winner of the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award

“Cohan’s
portrayal of the firm’s dominant partners—whose gargantuan appetites
and mercurial habits provide the unifying force behind the book’s
operatic melodramas— makes this an epic. . . . In fact, The Last Tycoons bears a striking resemblance to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon.”
—New York Times Book Review

“Breezy
and highly readable. . . . For those of us who enjoy high-level gossip
(most people) and an inside look at the machinations, triumphs,
failures, and foibles of some of Wall Street’s and America’s most
exalted personages, Cohan’s book is entertaining and seductively
engrossing.”
—Chicago Tribune

“Cohan’s thoroughness—he
interviewed over 100 current and former bankers and assorted
bigwigs—unearths a trove of colourful tidbits, many quite racy. . . .
Illuminating are Mr. Cohan’s descriptions of the scheming, politicking,
and general dysfunction that was Lazard.”
—Economist

“Cohan not only knows where the bodies are buried but got a guided tour of the graveyard.”
—Financial Times

“[The Last Tycoons] has sent a jolt through Lazard and the rest of Wall Street.”
—Wall Street Journal