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The Last Tycoons the Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. (Unabridged)
William D Cohan

Books On Tape, 2007

COMPLETE and UNABRIDGED 26 Audio Cds.

The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.

24 reviews
William D. Cohan

Broadway, 2008

From a different age
With extensive access to all players involved (except one, who declined to be interviewed) William D Cohan does a marvelous job in recounting the history of a bank from another time and the history of investment banking right into the 1990s. When reading the book I could not escape the feeling that Lazard was almost run like a personal fiefdom of the David-Weills with a few `stars' like Andre ...

House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
William D. Cohan

Doubleday, 2009

In March 2008, Bear Stearns, a swashbuckling eighty-four-year-old financial institution, was forced to sell itself to JPMorgan Chase for an outrageously low price in a deal brokered by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who was desperately trying to prevent the impending catastrophic market crash. But mere months before, an industry-wide boom had "the Bear" clocking a record high stock price. How did a giant investment bank with $18 billion in ...