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The devil's casino : friendship, betrayal, and the high-stakes games played inside Lehman Brothers /

by Ward, Vicky.
Published by : Wiley, (Hoboken, N.J. :) Physical details: xvii, 270 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN: 0470540869 Subject(s): Lehman Brothers. | Investment banking %New York (State) %New York %History. | Investment advisors %New York (State) %New York %History. | Finance %New York (State) %New York %History. Year: 2010
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Book Book AUM Main Library 332.660973 W256 (Browse Shelf) Available JBC/2012/6137
Book Book AUM Main Library 332.660973 W256 (Browse Shelf) Available JBC/2012/6137

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-255) and index.

Part one: the Ponderosa boys -- A long, hot summer -- The beginning -- The captain -- The "take-under" -- Slamex -- The phoenix rises -- Independence day -- The stiletto -- The Ides of March -- Eulogies -- Part two: the echo chamber -- Russian winter -- Lehman's desperate houswives -- The young lions -- 9/11 -- No ordinary Joe -- The talking head -- The sacrificial ram -- Korea's rising sum -- The wart on the end of Lehman's nose -- Damned flood? -- Closing the books -- Epilogue.

Ward takes you inside Lehman's highly charged offices where you'll meet beloved leaders who were erased from the corporate history books, but who could have taken the firm in a very different direction had they not fallen victim to infighting and their own weaknesses.

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