Электронная книга: Vicky Ward «The Devil's Casino. Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers»
The inside story of what really happened at Lehman Brothers and why it failed In The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers, investigative writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward takes readers inside Lehman's highly charged offices. What Ward uncovers is a much bigger story than Lehman losing at the risky game of collateralized debt obligations, swaps, and leverage. A can't put it down page turner that opens the world of Wall Street to view unlike any book since Bonfire of the Vanities, except that The Devil's Casino isn't fiction. Details what went on behind-the-scenes the weekend Lehman Brothers failed, as well as inside Lehman during the twenty years preceding it Describes the feudal culture that proved both Lehman's strength and its Achilles'heel Written by Vicky Ward, one of today's most connected business and finance writers On Wall Street, Lehman Brothers was cheekily known as«the cat with nine lives.» But as The Devil's Casino documents, this cat pushed its luck too far and died?the victim of men and women blinded by arrogance. Издательство: "John Wiley&Sons Limited (USD)"
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Vicky Ward
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name = Victoria Penelope Jane Ward
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Victoria Penelope Jane ("Vicky") Ward (born
Early life
Vicky Ward was born in
She was educated at single-sex boarding schools from the age of nine: first until the age of thirteen at Godstowe Preparatory School in
Since 1995, Ward has been married to SAC Capital portfolio manager Matthew Doull; they met at the offices of the " Daily Telegraph", where he was a financial journalist. The couple has two children, twins Lorcan and Orlando, and resides in New York City's
Ward is active in New York City literary
Journalism career
Ward began her journalism career in the chairman’s office of British Condé Nast. After only three months, Ward moved on to become the sub-editor of “The Insider,” the gossip column in the now-defunct British newspaper, " Today", followed by a position at the "Daily Telegraph", writing features and penning the weekly "Financial Diary". At 23, while continuing to write features, Ward became the editor of "
Before moving to the
In 1998, at age 28, she began an 18 month-long managerial position as the news features editor at the "
In 2007, she began a weekly column on the opinion pages of the " London Evening Standard". In January 2008, she added being an on-air contributor for
Recent work
At "Vanity Fair", Ward specializes in investigative reporting. She has profiled Hewlett-Packard chief Ward has also written extensively about the worlds of art and society: she has chronicled disputes at the Getty Museum, and at New York's Guggenheim; she profiled art collector and luxury magnate On CNBC, she has appeared on various programs to discuss topics including the She has also discussed the "booming call-girl industry" [http://www.style.com/trends/blogs/style_file/2008/05/chattering-clas.html Style.com, “Style File: Chattering Class”] , "The blond Brit...has sounded off on everything from the declining newspaper business to the booming call-girl industry—the latter is becoming a bit of a journalistic obsession for the writer, who has profiled Jeffrey Epstein and the D.C. Madam."] [http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=683638751&play=1 CNBC, Escort Services Disrobed] ] , having profiled Ward has also appeared on References Related articles * External links * [http://www.vickyward.com VickyWard.com] Источник: Vicky Ward
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiahiOUF4Gc CSNBC, “Suicide of the DC Madam”]
* [http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2008/05/vicky-ward-john.html Vanity Fair, "John Cusack's Viral Success Story"]
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vicky-ward Vicky Ward at "The Huffington Post"]
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