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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Cast of Characters | |
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| Prologue: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 | |
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| The Plunge: 1989-1991 | |
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| "This Is the Street Where They Fool People." | |
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| From Consulting to Communications: MCI | |
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| My First Run-in with Jack Grubman | |
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| Street Smarts | |
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| Ed Comes Knocking | |
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| From the Jetway to the Attic | |
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| "We Do Not Make Negative or Controversial Comments About Our Clients." | |
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| Around the World in Seven Days (or Less): 1992-1993 | |
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| Climbing Over the Wall | |
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| "You're the Only One." | |
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| "Hi, I'm John Mack..." | |
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| Privatization Pandemonium | |
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| The Perils of Papadam | |
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| Mississippi Madness | |
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| Rainmaker, Dealbreaker: 1993-1996 | |
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| Fraud 101 | |
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| Tone and Notice | |
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| Jack's Knack | |
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| Afternoon Tryst | |
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| My Major Opinion Change: Upgrading the Bells, Downgrading AT&T | |
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| The Power of the Poll | |
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| "Just to Make Things Interesting" | |
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| Intimidation: 1996-1997 | |
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| M&A Mania | |
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| Nothing Personal? | |
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| Internet Ignorance | |
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| Suffocation | |
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| My Failed Quest for Qwest | |
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| Fido Loves WorldCom | |
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| Irrational Exuberance | |
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| Merger Mania: July 1997-January 1999 | |
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| The Case of the Secret Document | |
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| MCI/BT: The "BloodBath" | |
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| Jack and Bernie: Inextricably Linked | |
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| Jack Plays Loose: I Play Banker | |
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| How I Lost My Bank $25 Million | |
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| Oxygen Deprivation: 1999 | |
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| My Multibillion-Dollar Mistake: AT&T | |
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| "You're Missing the Fucking Boat on Level 3" | |
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| "You Know He Can't Keep His Mouth Shut" | |
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| The SEC's Deadly Mistake | |
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| "How Can Your Best Friends Become Your Worst Enemies?" | |
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| To Publish or Not? | |
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| The Leak, the Ambush, and the Dupe: 1999 | |
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| "Shame on Them?" | |
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| The $14 Billion Leak | |
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| The Ambush | |
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| A Piece of the Action at CSFB | |
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| Merrill: I'm Outta Here | |
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| "Any Idea What the Hell They Were Talking About?" | |
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| The $1.5 Million Mistake | |
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| The Dupe: Jack's AT&T Upgrade | |
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| "I've Never Had a Conversation Like This." | |
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| Humpty-Dumpty: 2000 | |
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| Playing with the Devil | |
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| My Mountaintop Message | |
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| Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? | |
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| Two Minutes to Midnight | |
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| The Beginning of the End | |
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| The Guide-down Game | |
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| A Week from Hell | |
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| Crash and Burn: 2001 | |
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| The Crash | |
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| The Show Must Go On | |
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| Global's Insider Game | |
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| Nacchio's Wrath | |
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| The Analyst Plays the Villain | |
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| Jack, the All-Knowing | |
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| Qwest and Global: The Swapstakes | |
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| Vindicated-But So What? | |
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| Outed: Qwest's Accounting Gimmicks | |
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| "How Do You Know This?" | |
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| Jack Fell Down: 2002-April 2003 | |
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| The Worm Turns | |
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| WorldCon | |
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| Hearings from Hell | |
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| "What's a Level 3?" | |
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| Sex, Lies, and Videotape | |
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| So Long to the Street | |
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| Epilogue: Where Are They Now? | |
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| Afterword: Back to the Future: Some Policy Prescriptions | |
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| The Middleman's Dilemma | |
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| Why Spinning Off Research Won't Work | |
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| A Critique of Actual and Proposed Reforms | |
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| What Needs to Be Done | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |