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Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
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Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street Compact disc - 2007

by Michael Lewis; Read by Michael Lewis


From the publisher

It was wonderful to be young and working on Wall Street in the 1980s: never had so many twenty-four-year-olds made so much money in so little time.
In this shrewd and wickedly funny audiobook, 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-a bond salesman who could turn over millions of dollars' worth of doubtful bonds with just one call. A born storyteller, Michael Lewis shows us how things "really" worked on Wall Street. The bond traders, wearing greed and ambition as 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 was to transfer money, in the form of bonds, from those outside American 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.

Details

  • Title Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
  • Author Michael Lewis; Read by Michael Lewis
  • Binding Compact Disc
  • Edition Abridged
  • Volumes 3
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Date September 18, 2007
  • Abridged Yes
  • ISBN 9780739357309 / 0739357301
  • Weight 0.27 lbs (0.12 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.34 x 5.77 x 0.62 in (16.10 x 14.66 x 1.57 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Michael Lewis is the bestselling author of "Coach, ""Moneyball," and "The New New Thing," among other books. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Tabitha Soren, and their two daughters