William Cohan is an award-winning journalist and Wall Street veteran. His first book, The Last Tycoons, about Lazard, won the 2007 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and was a New York Times bestseller. His second book, House of Cards, also a bestseller, is an account of the last days of Bear Stearns & Co, described as "gripping...high drama" by Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times. He is a regular on the pages of the Financial Times, is a contributing editor at both Vanity Fair and Fortune, and is an online columnist for The New York Times.
Revelatory, engrossing, penetrating ... Cohan revels in a good
bust-up
*Financial Times*
The best analysis yet of Goldman's increasingly tangled web of
conflicts
*Economist*
Startling ... lifts the lid on Goldman's pivotal role in the
meltdown
*Mail on Sunday*
Cohan portrays a firm that has grown so large and hungry that it's
no longer long-term greedy but short-term vicious. And that's the
wonder - and horror - of Goldman Sachs
*Businessweek*
Cohan's book tells of bitter power struggles and business
cock-ups
*Guardian*
A definitive account of the most profitable and influential
investment bank of the modern era
*New York Times Book Review*
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