Of Greed And Glory
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Greed And Glory On Wall Street
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Author : Ken Auletta
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2015-09-29
Greed And Glory On Wall Street written by Ken Auletta and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-29 with Business & Economics categories.
The inside account of a financial meltdown that reshaped Wall Street In 1983, Lew Glucksman, then co-CEO of the heralded investment bank Lehman Brothers, demanded the resignation of chairman Pete Peterson, with whom he had long argued over how to manage the company. Shockingly, Peterson, who had taken charge a decade earlier and led Lehman from near collapse to record profits, agreed to step down. In this meticulously researched volume, Ken Auletta details the turmoil, infighting, and power struggles that brought about Peterson’s departure and the eventual sale of one of Wall Street’s oldest and most prestigious firms. Set against the backdrop of the 1980s stock exchange, where hotshot young traders made and lost millions in a single afternoon, the story of Lehman’s fall is a suspenseful battle of wills between bankers, traders, and executives motivated by greed, envy, and ego. Auletta, who conducted hundreds of hours of interviews and was granted access to private company records, has crafted a thorough, enduring, and engaging account of pivotal events that continued to influence this storied financial institution until its ultimate demise in 2008.
Of Greed And Glory
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Author : Deborah G. Plant
language : en
Publisher: Amistad
Release Date : 2024-01-03
Of Greed And Glory written by Deborah G. Plant and has been published by Amistad this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-03 with categories.
A ground-breaking, personal exploration of America's obsession with continuing human bondage from the editor of the New York Times-bestselling Barracoon. Freedom and equality are the watchwords of American democracy. But like justice, freedom and equality are meaningless when there is no corresponding practical application of the ideals they represent. Physical, bodily liberty is fundamental to every American's personal sovereignty. And yet, millions of Americans--including author Deborah Plant's brother, whose life sentence at Angola Prison reveals a shocking current parallel to her academic work on the history of slavery in America--are deprived of these basic freedoms every day. In her studies of Zora Neale Hurston, Deborah Plant became fascinated by Hurston's explanation for the atrocities of the international slave trade. In her memoir, Dust Tracks on a Road, Hurston wrote: "But the inescapable fact that stuck in my craw, was: my people had sold me and the white people had bought me. . . . It impressed upon me the universal nature of greed and glory." We look the other way when the basic human rights of marginalized and stigmatized groups are violated and desecrated, not realizing that only the practice of justice everywhere secures justice, for any of us, anywhere. An active vigilance is required of those who would be and remain free; with Of Greed and Glory, Deborah Plant reveals the many ways in which slavery continues in America today and charts our collective course toward personal sovereignty for all.
Glamour Greed Glory
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Author : Judith A. Moose
language : en
Publisher: Jm Media Group
Release Date : 2005-10
Glamour Greed Glory written by Judith A. Moose and has been published by Jm Media Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10 with Performing Arts categories.
Greed And Glory
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Author : Sean Deveney
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-05-15
Greed And Glory written by Sean Deveney and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-15 with Sports & Recreation categories.
On October 28, 1986, just one day after winning one of the most thrilling World Series in history, the New York Mets were feted by more than two million fans with a parade through the city. In news accounts of the event, there was a small aside, as this one in the New York Times: "Notable in his absence was the pitcher Dwight Gooden, who Mets officials later said had overslept." No, the Mets' twenty-one-year-old phenom had not slept too late. He had not slept at all, in fact. For Gooden, his postgame champagne celebration kicked off a cocaine binge that took him to a club in Long Island and wound up with him, wired, watching his teammates roll through the streets as he sat with strangers in a public housing project. Such were the 1980s in New York City, a gilded era buttressed by fast money from a real estate boom and the explosion of Wall Street wealth. The Mets and Giants, bolstered by lightning-rod personalities like Gooden and Lawrence Taylor, brought the city sporting glory while its celebrity wealthy added a tabloid-friendly touch of intrigue and national envy. Iconoclastic real estate developer Donald Trump gained national celebrity for his deal-making skill and the flaunting of his outsize ego. Even mayor Ed Koch had gained coast-to-coast fame and mention as a potential future president. Beneath the opulence was a tenuous foundation, one that collapsed spectacularly over the last half of the decade. Away from the cameras focused on the city's nouvelle riches, New York was beset by crisis after crisis--homelessness, AIDS, crack cocaine, organized crime. The swell of outrage over the unwillingness of the city elite to address those problems took years to finally reach a tipping point. Through interviews and detailed research, Greed and Glory gives the narrative of New York during these times, tracing the arc of its sports heroes and celebrities of that era, from their memorable highs to their ultimate lows.
High Stakes No Prisoners
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Author : Charles Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Release Date : 2001
High Stakes No Prisoners written by Charles Ferguson and has been published by W. W. Norton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Computer industry categories.
Charles Ferguson's hilarious, hard-boiled journey into the heart of high-tech darkness has become the signal book of the start-up generation. Charles Ferguson started Vermeer Technologies and turned his very big idea into FrontPage, the first software product for creating and managing a website. Ferguson took a good idea, started a company, and sold it to Microsoft for $133 million -- all in less than two years. High Stakes, No Prisoners is both a blistering inside account of how he did it and a brilliant tour of the brutally competitive and utterly unique world of Silicon Valley. - Publisher.
The Decoders First Adventure
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Author : Marjorie Vego Krausz
language : en
Publisher: Star Publish
Release Date : 2008-09
The Decoders First Adventure written by Marjorie Vego Krausz and has been published by Star Publish this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
The DECODERs, a multicultural group of young people, meet by chance at a desert space camp to witness the race to space of two privately-built manned spacecraft. Applying their unique skills, they solve a mystery, and to their surprise, they also discover a solution-finding process--the DECODER Way!
Power Greed And Glory On Wall Street
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Author : Ken Auletta
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Power Greed And Glory On Wall Street written by Ken Auletta and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Investment banking categories.
Gold Greed And Glory
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Author : Kate Ruland-Thorne
language : en
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
Release Date : 2007
Gold Greed And Glory written by Kate Ruland-Thorne and has been published by Publishamerica Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Prior to 1864, the vast lands north of the Gila River in Arizona County, New Mexico Territory, were known only as Tierra Incognita, unknown lands, inhabited by the fierce Tonto Apache and Yavapai people. Gold remained a rumor there until 1863 when two mountain men, each leading separate expeditions, discovered it. One year later, President Abraham Lincoln declared Arizona a territory. Immediately the stampede for gold was underway, creating the inevitable conflict with the Native population. The Indians held the upper hand until the arrival of General George Crook in 1872. Following on the heels of the prospectors, soldiers and government officials were the pioneers, entrepreneurs, outlaws, lawmen and ladies of the night. Each contributed a thread to the vibrant tapestry woven into the territorial history of this fascinating era. "Gold, Greed and Glory" looks deeply into many of their lives, gives them flesh and blood, and carries the reader along on their exploits and glorious adventures.
Rubber A Story Of Glory And Greed
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Author : Howard WOLF (and WOLF (Ralph))
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1936
Rubber A Story Of Glory And Greed written by Howard WOLF (and WOLF (Ralph)) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1936 with categories.
Rubber
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Author : Howard Wolf
language : en
Publisher: New York : Covici, Friede
Release Date : 1936
Rubber written by Howard Wolf and has been published by New York : Covici, Friede this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1936 with Rubber categories.
