Liar's Poker

ISBN-13: 9780393338690 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 320 str.

Michael Lewis

Opis

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."

O autorze

Michael Lewis, Jahrgang 1960, ist Wirtschaftsjournalist Autor von zahlreichen Sachbüchern. Er hat Abschlüsse von der Princeton University und der London School of Economics. Seine Erfahrungen als Investmentbanker verarbeitete er 1989 in seinem ersten Buch. Zahlreiche weitere Bestseller aus der Finanzszene und der Welt des Sports folgten. Lewis lebt mit seiner Frau und seinen drei Kindern in Berkeley, Kalifornien.