Bestselling author William D. 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 pressu[...]
William D. Cohan's "Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World" is a chronicle of the most successful, iconic bank on Wall Street, from the firm's founding in 1869 to the present day. Goldman Sachs are the investment bank all other banks - and most businesses - want to emulate; the fi[...]
On March 5, 2008, at 10:15 A.M., a hedge fund manager in Florida wrote a post on his investing advice Web site that included a startling statement about Bear Stearns & Co., the nation's fifth-largest investment bank: "In my book, they are insolvent."
This seemed a bold and risky statement. Bear [...]
"A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street's most storied investment bank
"Wall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most powerful firms, Lazard Freres & Co. stood apart. [...]
The bestselling author of the acclaimed "House of Cards" and "The Last Tycoons "turns his spotlight on to Goldman Sachs and the controversy behind its success.
From the outside, Goldman Sachs is a perfect company. The Goldman PR machine loudly declares it to be smarter, more ethical, and more pr[...]