One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? …
Shelve A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the …
Shelve Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves
It was the most brutal corporate restructuring in Wall Street history. The 2015 bankruptcy brawl for the storied casino giant, Caesars Entertainment, pitted brilliant and ruthless private equity legen…
Shelve The Caesars Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street
In 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others suspected--that the housing market and the value of subprime mortgages were grossly inflated and headed for a major fall. Paulso…
Shelve The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
A New York Times bestselling author and leading expert on market risk argues that seismic shifts in the global economy will trigger a multi-trillion-dollar migration of wealth, tracing the fateful dec…
Shelve How to Listen When Markets Speak: Risks, Myths, and Investment Opportunities in a Radically Reshaped Economy
There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President's Men gave readers the full story, with all the drama and nuance and exclusive reporting. And thirty years later, if you're going…
Shelve The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
On March 5, 2008, at 10:15 A.M., a hedge fund manager in Florida wrote a post on his investing advice Web site that included a startling statement about Bear Stearns & Co., the nation’s fifth-largest …
Shelve House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
Based on reporting for which the author was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Gerald Loeb Award, this book traces the rise and spectacular fall of Washington Mutual.
During the most dizzy…
Shelve The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual-The Biggest Bank Failure in American History
“A riveting account that reaches beyond the market landscape to say something universal about risk and triumph, about hubris and failure.”— The New York Times
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY…
Shelve When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
The winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty. Acclaimed by The Wall Street Journ…
Shelve The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
The Buy Side, by former Galleon Group trader Turney Duff, portrays an after-hours Wall Street culture where drugs and sex are rampant and billions in trading commissions flow …
Shelve The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess
The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it's essential reading."—Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair
A #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought…
The definitive inside story of WeWork, its audacious founder, and what the company's epic unraveling exposes about Silicon Valley's delusions and the financial system's desperate hunger to cash in--fr…
Shelve The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
A #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco. An enduring masterpiece of investigative…
Shelve Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects o…
