Книга: William D. Cohan «The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres& Co»
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Производитель: "Penguin Books Ltd." They amassed unimaginable fortunes and would stop at nothing to make a deal, until their titanic egos started to jeopardize everything. This is the astonishing story of Lazard Freres, the world's most elite and legendary investment bank - and the men who reigned over it all. For over 150 years Lazard Freres had stood apart from other Wall Street firms by offering ultra-wealthy clients the wisdom of its'Great Men': from Felix Rohatyn, the escapee from Nazi-occupied France turned financial genius, to Michel David-Weill, the inscrutable French billionaire'Sun King'; from Steve Rattner, the boy wonder from Long Island who clashed violently with the old guard, to larger-than-life CEO Bruce Wasserstein,'Bid-Em-Up Bruce', who broke with the bank's traditions and made himself billions in the process. In The Last Tycoons William Cohan, himself a former high-level Wall Street banker, takes us into their mysterious and secretive world, telling a story of ruthless ambition, whispered advice,... ISBN:978-0-1410-3689-2 Издательство: "Penguin Books Ltd." (2008)
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William D. Cohan
William D. Cohan is a contributing editor at Fortune, and award-winning former investigative newspaper reporter based in Raleigh, North Carolina, who worked on Wall Street for seventeen years. He spent six years at Lazard Frères in New York and later became a managing director at JP Morgan Chase. He lives in New York City and Columbia County, New York. He is the brother of Peter Cohan. He graduated from Duke University.
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Books
In 2007 he published The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co., about Lazard Frères. It won the 2007 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
His book House of Cards, describing the last days of Bear Stearns & Co., was published in March 2009. The book has received good reviews, described as a "masterfully reported account" by Tim Rutten in the Los Angeles Times.[1]
In an op-ed article in the New York Times, Cohan said in March 2009 that Bear Stearns CEO Alan Schwartz and Lehman CEO Dick Fuld had engaged in a "tsunami of excuses" when they were responsible for their firms' collapse.[2] In another op-ed written with Sandy B. Lewis in June he said that the current economic crisis is not over yet, and that "many of the fixes that the Obama administration has proposed will do little to address them and may make them worse."[3]
His 2011 book, Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World, examines the historical role and influence of Goldman Sachs. (He appeared on the Daily Show on 28 April 2011 to discuss the book.[4]
Bibliography
- Cohan, William D. (2007). The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-51451-4.
- Cohan, William D. (2009). House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385528269.
- Cohan, William D. (2011). Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385523844.
References
- ^ Rutten, Tim (March 6, 2009). "'House of Cards' by William D. Cohan". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2009/mar/06/entertainment/et-rutten6. Retrieved November 17, 2009.
- ^ Cohan, William D. (March 12, 2009). "A Tsunami of Excuses". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/opinion/12cohan.html.
- ^ Lewis, Sandy B.; Cohan, William D. (June 7, 2009). "The Economy Is Still at the Brink". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/opinion/07cohanWEB.html.
- ^ Jon Stewart, ed. (2011-04-28), "William D. Cohan Interview", The Daily Show (Comedy Central), http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-28-2011/exclusive---william-cohan-extended-interview-pt--1
External links
- Author discusses his book "The Last Tycoons" on The Leonard Lopate Show
- Author discusses his book "The Last Tycoons" on Marketplace (radio program) with Kai Ryssdal
- Video (with audio-only available) conversation with Cohan about Wall Street excesses on Bloggingheads.tv
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