Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World - Softcover

Cohan, William D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241954061 ISBN 13: 9780241954065

Publisher: Penguin, 2012

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2012 Pages: 672 Publisher: Penguin 'If they could screw you over. They totally would ...' Goldman Sachs are the Investment Bank all other banks - and most Businesses-want to timestamped (Emulated); The Firm with the best talent. the best clients. the best strategy. But is their success just down to the gilded magic of the 'Goldman way' William D. Cohan has gained unprecedented access to Goldman's inner circle - both on and off the record. In an astonishing story of clashing egos. backstabbing. sex scandals. private investigators. court cases and government cabals. he reveals what really lies beneath their gold-plated image.

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Review:

Revelatory, engrossing, penetrating ... Cohan revels in a good bust-up (Financial Times)

The best analysis yet of Goldman's increasingly tangled web of conflicts

(Economist)

Startling ... lifts the lid on Goldman's pivotal role in the meltdown (Mail on Sunday)

Cohan portrays a firm that has grown so large and hungry that it's no longer long-term greedy but short-term vicious. And that's the wonder - and horror - of Goldman Sachs (Businessweek)

Cohan's book tells of bitter power struggles and business cock-ups (Guardian)

A definitive account of the most profitable and influential investment bank of the modern era (New York Times Book Review)

From the Back Cover:

Praise for House of Cards

"Like Michael Lewis's 'Liar's Poker' and Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's 'Barbarians at the Gate,' this volume turns complex Wall Street maneuverings into high drama that is gripping .... [His] account of its death spiral not only makes for riveting, edge-of-the-seat reading, but it also stands as a chilling cautionary tale about how greed and hubris and high-risk gambling wrecked one company."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“Fascinating.”--The Wall Street Journal

"A riveting blow-by-blow account." --The Economist

"Masterfully reported....[Cohan] has turned into one of our most able financial journalists....he deploys not only his hands-on experience of this exotic corner of the financial industry but also a remarkable gift for plain-spoken explanation... It's impossible to do justice to his reportorial detail in a brief review..." --Los Angeles Times
Praise for THE LAST TYCOONS

“Cohan's portrayal of the firm's dominant partners—whose gargantuan appetites and mercurial habits provide the unifying force behind the book's operatic melodramas— makes this an epic . . . In fact, The Last Tycoons bears a striking resemblance to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon.”—New York Times Book Review

“Breezy and highly readable . . . For those of us who enjoy high-level gossip (most people) and an inside look at the machinations, triumphs, failures, and foibles of some of Wall Street's and America's most exalted personages, Cohan's book is entertaining and seductively engrossing.”—Chicago Tribune

“Cohan not only knows where the bodies are buried but got a guided tour of the graveyard.”—Financial Times

“Rips the roof off of one of Wall Street's most storied investment banks.”—Vanity Fair

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0241954061
• ISBN 13: 9780241954065
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 672