Barbarians at the Gate
The Fall of RJR Nabisco
$44.05
- Paperback
624 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2009
Summary
#1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco at the hands of a massive leveraged buyout from investment firm KKR.
A book that stormed both the bestseller list and the public imagination, a book that created a genre of its own, and a book that gets at the heart of 1980s Wall Street and the culture it helped define, Barbarians at the Gate is a modern…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780061655555 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0061655554 |
| Author: | Bryan Burrough, John Helyar |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Edition: | 20th |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2009 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 38mm x 135mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
“The most piercing and compelling narrative of a deal to date.”
“It’s hard to imagine a better story…and it’s hard to imagine a better account” - Chicago Tribune
“A superlative book…steadily builds suspense until the very end.” - Los Angeles Times Book Review
“The fascinating inside story of the largest corporate takeover in American history… It reads like a novel.” - Today Show
“The most piercing and compelling narrative of a deal to date.” - Boston Globe
“All the suspense of a first-rate thriller… one of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the 1980’s.” - New York Times Book Review
“Impressive qualities… delicious scenes… a cinematic yet extraordinarily careful book.” - Ken Auletta, New York Daily News
Bryan Burrough
Bryan Burrough is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair and the author of five books.
John Helyar is a columnist for Bloomberg News. He previously wrote for the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and ESPN, and is the author of Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball.
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