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Liar's Poker (25th Anniversary Edition)
Michael Lewis
Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
W.W. Norton & Company
November 2014
On Sale: October 27, 2014
320 pages
ISBN: 0393246108
EAN: 9780393246100
Kindle: B00KSHZT2O
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The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game
was called Liar’s Poker.
Before there was Flash Boys and The Big Short, there was
Liar's Poker. A knowing and unnervingly talented debut, this
insider’s account of 1980s Wall Street excess transformed
Michael Lewis from a disillusioned bond salesman to the
best-selling literary icon he is today. Together, the three
books cover thirty years of endemic global
corruption—perhaps the defining problem of our age—which has
never been so hilariously skewered as in Liar's Poker, now
in a twenty-fifth-anniversary edition with a new afterword
by the author. It was wonderful to be young and working on Wall Street in
the 1980s: never before had so many twenty-four-year-olds
made so much money in so little time. After you learned the
trick of it, all you had to do was pick up the phone and the
money poured in your lap. This wickedly funny book endures as the best record we have
of those heady, frenzied years. In it Lewis describes his
own rake’s progress through a powerful investment bank. From
an unlikely beginning (art history at Princeton?) he rose in
two short years from Salomon Brothers trainee to Geek (the
lowest form of life on the trading floor) to Big Swinging
Dick, the most dangerous beast in the jungle, a bond
salesman who could turn over millions of dollars' worth of
doubtful bonds with just one call. As he has continued to do for a quarter century, Michael
Lewis here shows us how things really worked on Wall Street.
In the Salomon training program a roomful of aspirants is
stunned speechless by the vitriolic profanity of the Human
Piranha; out on the trading floor, bond traders throw
telephones at the heads of underlings and Salomon chairmen
Gutfreund challenges his chief trader to a hand of liar’s
poker for one million dollars.
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