Cohan is the author of the new york times bestsellers house of cards and the last tycoons, which won the 2007 financial times and goldman sachs business book of the year award. A tale of hubris and wretched excess on wall street, and money and power, and more. Cohan, a former senior wall street investment banker, is the bestselling author of the last tycoons and the winner of the 2007 ftgoldman sachs business book of the year award. He chronicles the swashbuckling corporate culture of bear stearns, the strangely crucial role competitive bridge played in the companys fortunes, the brutal. He has also been featured on numerous npr programs, including marketplace, diane rehm, leonard lopate, and studio 360 with kurt anderson. Cohan is the author of the new york times bestsellers house of cards and the last tycoons, which won the 2007 ftgoldman sachs business book of the year award.
Though primarily about the demise of bear stearns, it was also illuminating on how a general culture of arrogance, coupled with bad decision making, brought the worlds most powerful economy to the verge of collapse. Cohan, a former senior wall street investment banker, is the. Through the prism of bear stearns, he shows how a combination of risky bets, corporate political infighting, lax. He is a contributing editor at vanity fair, has a biweekly opinion column in the new york times, and writes frequently for the financial times, fortune, the atlantic, and the washington post, among other. The new york observer cohan vividly documents the mix of arrogance, greed, recklessness, and pettiness that took down the 86yearold brokerage house and then the entire economy. A blistering narrative account of the negligence and greed that pushed all of wall street into chaos and the country into a financial crisis. He is a contributing editor at vanity fair, has a biweekly opinion column in the new york times, and writes frequently for the financial. He is an online columnist for the new york times, and writes frequently for vanity fair, fortune, artnews, the financial times, the washington post and the daily beast. In house of cards bestselling author and former investment banker william cohan gives the reader a frontrow seat at wall streets catastrophic unravelling at the seams, and the end of the second gilded age on wall street. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading house of cards. Cohan makes clear in his engrossing new book, house of cards, bear stearns is also a kind of microcosm of what went wrong. In a talk about the book at cal state long beach, cohan said he felt it was his mission to get a response to questions left unanswered by wall street ceos.
At the beginning of march 2008, the monetary fabric of bear stearns, one of the worlds oldest and largest investment banks, began unraveling. He then worked on wall street for seventeen years as a mergers and acquisitions banker. A tale of hubris and wretched excess on wall street. From the bestselling, prizewinning author of the last tycoons and house of cards, a revelatory history of goldman sachs, the most dominant, feared, and controversial investment bank in the world.
Cohan beautifully demonstrates why the seemingly invincible wall street money machine came crashing down. Cohan has proven to be one of the most meticulous and intrepid journalists covering the world of wall street and high finance. Cohan, a bloomberg view columnist, is the author of the forthcoming the price of silence. See how this article appeared when it was originally published on. Cohan, bestselling author of house of cards, has long been critical of the bad behaviour that plagued much of wall street in the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, and, as an exbanker, he is an expert on its inner workings as well. Cohan, whose reporting and writing have been hailed as gripping the new york times, authoritative the washington post, and seductively engrossing chicago tribune, presents a stunning new account of the duke lacrosse team scandal that reveals the pressures faced by americas elite colleges and universities and pulls back the curtain, in a. A tale of hubris and wretched excess on wall street is the second book written by william d. Cohan revisiting the toxic controversy surrounding dukes lacrosse teamand examining the wayward culture on college campuses today. But in recent years he has become alarmed by the vitriol directed at the bankers, traders. Cohan makes clear in his engrossing new book, house of cards, bear stearns is also a kind of microcosm of what went wrong on. A tale of unrestrained ambition, billiondollar fortunes, byzantine power struggles, and hidden scandal, and more on. House of cards tries to tell the complete tale of the rise and fall of bear sterns. How wall streets gamblers broke capitalism by cohan, william d.
He has appeared on the daily show, charlie rose, cbs this morning, abc evening news, good morning america, and more. Discover book depositorys huge selection of william d cohan books online. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. The duke lacrosse scandal, the power of the elite, and. William david cohan is an american business writer. Winner, financial times and goldman sachs business book of the year award. A tale of hubris and wretched excess on wall street kindle edition by cohan, william d download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Four friends new release by kenan board member william. A tale of hubris and wretched excess on wall street, and the last tycoons. He is a contributing editor at vanity fair, has a biweekly opinion column in the new york times, and writes frequently for the financial times, fortune, the atlantic, and the washington post. Cohan and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. William cohan on the duke lacrosse scandal, how the school.
That book also received the financial times goldman sachs award. But house of cards does more than recount the incredible panic of the first stages of the financial meltdown. House of cards by cohan abebooks shop for books, art. Cohan sets out to give the reader an inside story of exactly what happened to bear stearns, an investment bank that collapsed in march 2008. He was an investigative reporter for the raleigh times. The duke lacrosse scandal, the power of the elite and the corruption of our great universities. A tale of hubris and wretched excess on wall street 2009. How pot helped destroy bear stearns the daily beast. Cohan gets inside the companys spectacular collapseand details how. A tale of hubris and wretched excess on wall street thorndike nonfiction by william d. Eight years later, vanity fair contributing editor william cohan, the bestselling author of money and power about goldman sachs and house of cards bear sterns, aimed to, in the cool light. Cohan, a former senior wall street investment banker, is the new york times bestselling author of the price of silence, about the duke lacrosse scandal. He is a contributing editor at vanity fair, has a weekly opinion column in bloomberg view, and writes frequently for fortune, the atlantic, art news, businessweek, the new york times, the financial times, the irish times, and. Cohan has constructed a vivid narrative that looks behind the veil of secrecy to reveal how goldman has become so profitable and so.
He has also been featured on numerous npr programs, including marketplace, diane rehm, leonard lopate, studio 360 with kurt anderson, and many others. House of cards by william cohan ft business book of the. Cohan, former senior wall street investment banker, is the author of the new york times bestsellers house of cards and the last tycoons. William david cohan born february 20, 1960 is an american business writer. Cohan is the bestselling author of money and power, house of cards, and the last tycoons. In his masterful pieces for vanity fair and in his bestselling books, william d. Cohan is the author of the new york times bestsellers house of. A tale of hubris and wretched excess on wall street by william d. In march 2008, bear stearns, a swashbuckling eightyfouryearold financial institution, was forced to sell itself to jpmorgan chase for an outrageously low price. He writes for the financial times, the atlantic, the new york times and the washington post and is a contributing editor to fortune magazine. Cohan was an awardwinning investigative journalist before. William d cohan is the author of books such as house of cards.
His book, the price of silence, about the duke lacrosse scandal was. He has written three books about business and econom. Cohan house of cards how wall streets gamblers broke capitalism. Cohan is a graduate of duke university, columbia university school of journalism. The book is extremely entertaining and full of interviews and quotes, clearly a testament to an enormous amount of research. How wall streets gamblers broke capitalism dissects the collapse of bear stearns and the beginning of the financial crisis. A tale of hubris and wretched excess on wall street in march. Cohan is an author with eight videos in the cspan video library. The best part that i liked about the style of narration is while the wall street stories emerging post the subprime crisis are plentiful, reading about them at length. House of cards goodreads meet your next favorite book. The new york observer cohan vividly documents the mix of arrogance, greed, recklessness, and pettiness that took down the 86yearold brokerage house and.
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