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Liar's Poker
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The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker.
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Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush.
Liar’s Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied years—a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business. From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game of bluffing and deception, here is Michael Lewis’s knowing and hilarious insider’s account of an unprecedented era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune.
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Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis is widely praised for its humour and vivid storytelling. Critics have described it as both hilarious and profane, capturing the essence of Wall Street in the 1980s. Many see it as a defining work that encapsulates the financial culture of the era.
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ISBN: 9780393338690
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 May 2010
Country: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 211.0mm
Weight: 255g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Michael Lewis, the best-selling author of Liar's Poker, The Money Culture, The New New Thing, Moneyball, The Blind Side, Panic, Home Game, The Big Short, and Boomerang, among other works, lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and three children.
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