The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. Cohan William D.Paperback
A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street's most storied investment bankWall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of…
Specifikacia The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. Cohan William D.Paperback
A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street's most storied investment bankWall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most powerful firms, Lazard Freres & Co. stood apart. Discretion, secrecy, and subtle strategy were its weapons of choice. For more than a century, the mystique and reputation of the -Great Men- who worked there allowed the firm to garner unimaginable profits, social cachet, and outsized influence in the halls of power. But in the mid-1980s, their titanic egos started getting in the way, and the Great Men of Lazard jeopardized all they had built.William D. Cohan, himself a former high-level Wall Street banker, takes the reader into the mysterious and secretive world of Lazard and presents a compelling portrait of Wall Street through