Liar's Poker

Author: Michael Lewis
English.: Liar's Poker

Publisher: Olymp-Business, 2008.
Hardcover, 384 pp.
ISBN 978-5-9693-0114-6, 0-340-53469-9
Format: 84×108/32 (~130x205 mm)

CONTENT OF A BOOK ON THE HISTORY OF INVESTMENT BANKS

“Liar's Poker"A documentary version of the story of investment banks that reveals the background to Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities". Lewis describes his character's dizzying journey through the trading floors of Salomon Brothers in London and New York in the midst of the turbulent 1980s, when the firm was the most powerful and profitable investment bank in the world.

The story of that journey - from mere trainee to journeyman geek and to the victorious title of "big trunk" - is both funny and frightening. It is a frank, ruthless and breathtaking account of hysterical greed and ambition in a closed, maniacally obsessed marketplace world bonds. The excesses of Wall Street, which was the central theme of the 1980s, is accurately reflected in Liar's Poker.