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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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Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis
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- Released
- 1990
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- Title
- Liar's Poker
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Michael Lewis
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 1990
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN10
- 0340534699
- ISBN13
- 9780340534694
- Series
- The Big Short
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, History, True Stories, Business, Business & Management, Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Economics, Finance
- First published
- 1989
- Original title
- Liar's Poker. Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- 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.