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Barbarians at the Gate
by Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Harpercollins Publisher (1990-01)
ISBN: 0060161728
EAN: 9780060161729
Dewey Decimal #: 338.8366400973
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 528 pages
SKU: 41954
Condition: New
Comments: Harper and Row, 1991. 1st print of 1ST EDITION. WITH GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS! HARDBACK W/GILT LETTERING, DUST COVER AND PAGES ARE BRAND NEW! Ships quickly w/tracking number. AIR MAIL.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Barbarians at the Gate has been called one of the most influential business books of all time -- the definitive account of the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's gripping account of the frenzy that overtook Wall Street in October and November of 1988 is the story of deal makers and publicity flaks, of strategy meetings and society dinners, of boardrooms and bedrooms -- giving us not only a detailed look at how financial operations at the highest levels are conducted but also a richly textured social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era. Barbarians at the Gate -- a business narrative classic -- is must reading for everyone interested in the way today's world really works.
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Customer Reviews
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Great Story
Rating  (4)
Date: 2010-07-23
For a true story, it has all the ups and downs and excitement of a John Grisham novel.
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Informative and thoroughly entertaining.
Rating  (5)
Date: 2010-05-13
The book is a very good behind the scenes look at our capital markets.
Good look at how corporate greed rules--and thoroughly entertaining.
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Great book - but it feels like a FR Johnson defense by the end of it
Rating (5)
Date: 2010-05-03
The book itself is a real page turner. Thoroughly entertaining even if you already knew the outcome of the story, when people say this book sets the benchmark of all Wall Street related books they are not too wide off the mark.
Although I disagree with the sympathetic undertone the authors have for the villains - for example by the end was almost as if Ross Johnson was not driven by greed but merely a bumbling clown, a man who did know best how to run a successful business(right at the end when everyone else failed to make RJR work in the post LBO era) but I guess one simply can't go round bashing people who consented their appearance and gave time for your interviews.
It is astonishing how exhaustive the authors have researched into the subject and how much information was available to them, even in the minute details such as the decor of the offices, (the comments of the lavish designs of the offices were most amusing, if not infuriating for the mere mortal like me)
Overall it was a pleasure to read and an amazing journey right through to the end.
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Interesting Details Fly by at Lightning Speed
Rating  (3)
Date: 2010-03-30
This review is specific to the audio book (CD). The history is fascinating. I have always enjoyed these "behind the scenes" looks at the inner workings of modern business. The challenge with listening to this type of book is there is so many names and details to keep straight. It is easy to do when reading at your own pace and being able to refer back. But it is much harder with an audio book. This challenge is exacerbated with this audio book because the two readers read the book at a much-to-intense pace. This is one that I wold have rather read then listened to on CD.
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disappointment
Rating  (1)
Date: 2010-03-08
0 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
i bought this book thinking it was something informal
turns out its more like a movie
like a soap opera you might say
disappointed
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