Last Tycoons The Secret History of Lazard Frï¿½res and Co.

Name: Last Tycoons The Secret History of Lazard Frï¿½res and Co.
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ISBN: 9780385514514

ISBN-10: 0385514514

ISBN-13: 9780385514514

Edition: 2007

Authors: William D. Cohan

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"A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street's most storied investment bank "Wall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most powerful firms, Lazard Freres & Co. stood apart. Discretion, secrecy, and subtle strategy were its weapons of choice. For more than a century, the mystique and reputation of the "Great Men" who worked there allowed the firm to garner unimaginable profits, social cachet, and outsized influence in the halls of power. But in the mid-1980s, their titanic egos started getting in the way, and the Great Men of Lazard jeopardized all they had built. …

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/3/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 752
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.75" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 2.442
Language: English

William D. Cohan is the bestselling author of Money and Power, House of Cards, and The Last Tycoons. He has appeared on The Daily Show, Charlie Rose, CBS This Morning, ABC Evening News, Good Morning America, and more. He has also been featured on numerous NPR programs, including Marketplace, Diane Rehm, Leonard Lopate, and Studio 360 with Kurt Anderson.nbsp;In addition to being media savvy, Cohan is himself a Duke alum who worked on Wall Street for seventeen years.




"Great Men"



"Tomorrow, the Lazard House Will Go Down"



Original Sin



"You Are Dealing with Greed and Power"



Felix the Fixer



The Savior of New York



The Sun King



Felix for President



"The Cancer Is Greed"



The Vicar



The Boy Wonder



The Franchise



"Felix Loses It"



"It's a White Man's World"



The Heir Apparent



"All the Responsibility but None of the Authority"



"He Lit Up a Humongous Cigar and Puffed It in Our Faces for Half an Hour"



"Lazard May Go Down Like the Titanic!"



Bid-'Em-Up Bruce



Civil War



"The End of a Dynasty"


Afterword


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index