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House of Cards

A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street

by William D. Cohan

House of Cards
Publisher: Copyright © 2009 by William Cohan
Used by arrangement with Doubleday, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.
Pub. Date: 2009
ISBN: 9780385528269
No. pages: 480

Category: Economics & Politics
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In this summary you will learn

  • How Wall Street giant investment bank Bear Stearns collapsed in a few frantic days
  • How erratic leadership contributed to its failure

Why you should read House of Cards

The 2008 collapse of leading Wall Street investment house Bear Stearns showed the world just how rickety the global financial system had become. William D. Cohan tracks the firm’s dizzying rise and rapid collapse. His access to Bear Stearns insiders is the book’s strongest point. He offers a trenchant analysis of its decades-long rise and a definitive account of its final days. Cohan paints textured portraits of Bear’s top people, though he isn’t especially interested in translating their Wall Street jargon for lay readers. He lets his sources speak in their own patois. getAbstract recommends this book to business history buffs, investors and managers seeking perspective on a spectacular failure.

About the Author

William D. Cohan, former senior Wall Street investment banker, is the author of the New York Times bestsellers House of Cards and The Last Tycoons. That book also received the Financial Times Goldman Sachs Award. He writes for the Financial Times, The Atlantic, The New York Times and The Washington Post and is a contributing editor to Fortune magazine.

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