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Liar's Poker is a non-fiction, semi-autobiographical book by Michael Lewis describing the author's experiences as a bond salesman on Wall Street during the late 1980s. First published in 1989, it is considered one of the books that defined Wall Street during the 1980s.
This bestselling and hilarious book blew the doors off Wall Street's boardrooms and introduced the world to the writing of Michael Lewis. In this shrewd and wickedly funny book, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through a powerful investment bank. From an unlikely beginning (art history at Princeton?) he rose in two short years from Salomon Brothers trainee to Geek (the lowest form of life on the trading floor) to Big Swinging Dick, the most dangerous beast in the jungle, a bond salesman who could turn over millions of dollars' worth of doubtful bonds with just one call. With the eye and ear of a born storyteller, Michael Lewis shows us how things really worked on Wall Street. In the Salomon training program a roomful of aspirants is stunned speechless by the vitriolic profanity of the Human Piranha; out on the trading floor, bond traders throw telephones at the heads of underlings and Salomon chairman Gutfreund challenges his chief trader to a hand of liar's poker for one million dollars; around the world in London, Tokyo, and New York, bright young men like Michael Lewis, connected by telephones and computer terminals, swap gross jokes and find retail buyers for the staggering debt of individual companies or whole countries. The bond traders, wearing greed and ambition and badges of honor, might well have swaggered straight from the pages of Bonfire of the Vanities. But for all their outrageous behavior, they were in fact presiding over enormous changes in the world economy. Lewis's job, simply described, was to transfer money, in the form of bonds, from those outside America who saved to those inside America who consumed. In doing so, he generated tens of millions of dollars for Salomon Brothers, and earned for himself a ringside seat on the greatest financial spectacle of the decade: the leveraging of America. - Publisher.
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Salomon Brothers, Brokers, Biography, Bonds, New York Times bestseller, nyt:paperback_business_books=2011-07-30, International Stock Markets, Börsenspekulation, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture, Erlebnisbericht, New York Stock Exchange, Obligations (valeurs), Agents de change, Wall street, Salomon Brothers (Firm), Salomon Brothers (New York, NY u.a.), Commissionnaires et courtiers, BiographiesPlaces
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Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
September 18, 2007, RH Audio
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in English
- Abridged edition
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Liar's Poker: Two Cities, True Greed
October 21, 1999, Coronet Books
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0340767006 9780340767009
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Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
August 1991, Books On Tape
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5553820359 9785553820350
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Liar's Poker
September 1, 1990, Random House Audio
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0553452541 9780553452549
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Liar's Poker
October 1990, Tandem Library
School & Library Binding
in English
1417632267 9781417632268
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Liar's poker: rising through the wreckage on Wall Street
1990, Penguin Books
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0140143459 9780140143454
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Liar's poker: rising through the wreckage on Wall Street
1989, Norton
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0393027503 9780393027501
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