The original classic that revealed the truth about ambition, greed and excess in London and Wall Street, by the author of #1 bestsellers The Big Short and Flash Boys

From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis’ pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world’s most powerful and profitable merchant bank.

A true-life Bonfire of the Vanities, funny, frightening, breathless and heartless, his is a tale of hysterical greed and ambition set in an obsessed, enclosed world.

Details

ISBN13: 9780340839966
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 304
Edition:
Publication Date: 10 Aug 2006
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Publication City, Country: United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 19.6(H)x12.8(L)x3(W)252
Weight (gm): 252

Author Biography

Michael Lewis is a former banker who worked at Salomon Brothers in the height of Eighties boom. He writes regularly as a journalist and is the author of several books, including the international bestseller, LIAR S POKER.

Reviews

An amazing book, readable, funny and mind-boggling ... one of the great business books of all time - Punch

Read all about it: headlong greed, inarticulate obscenity, Animal House horseplay . . . - The Sunday Times

Immense verve and wit - 20/20 Magazine

A highly immoral book - Daily Mail

Wickedly funny - Daily Express

As traders would say, this book is a buy - Financial Times