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Title: The Money Culture by Michael Lewis ISBN: 0-14-017318-8 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good, entertaining reading about finance issues in the 80's
Comment: This is a collection of essays previously published in newspapers and magazines around the nation where some 10 years ago we could witness Lewis' early literary attempts. The book was consistently funny, insightful, and a good primer on several financial issues that dominated the 1980's. Most of these articles, for those interested in the authors' chronological history, came after he wrote his groundbreaking financial humor book entitled Liars Poker, which is regarded as a "must read" for anyone entering into the investment banking industry, particularly in bond trading where we he worked.
Mr. Lewis' writing style is great, which is why I read his book entitled Next, another good read if you are interested. Most of the topics in this book cover financial/business culture issues that date back during the late eighties, so there's also a bit of historical perspective to it.
The topics are a wide array and include stories about the domestic S&L scandal, some events that occurred in the French Bourse (their word for a stock market), the proliferation of the American Express Card during the 1980s, some offshore banking insights, Louis Rukeyser, Donald Trump, LBO stories and some comments on the Japanese capitalists. Like I said, he talks about a wide array of topics but remember that the book is a compilation of many articles.
I give it a 4 star rating. It was highly entertaining but nothing that caused my life to change or caused me to have a "light bulb" go off in my head.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Money Culture
Comment: When the plain facts can no longer provoke a response, a deft, incisive lampooning jab is often effective. Lewis is author of the best-selling Liar's Poker (Norton, 1989), which irreverently documented the decline of Wall Street at the end of the 1980s. Here he successfully skewers the familiar cast of characters that pillaged the 1980s financial landscape. He takes on the entire money cultures of Wall Street, Europe, and Japan in this collection of send-ups and put-downs. These 30-some pieces have all appeared elsewhere, mostly in Manhattan, Inc., and the New Republic, where Lewis sometimes wrote pseudonymously to protect his job as a bond dealer with Salomon Brothers brokerage house. (He now writes for a living.) Lewis skillfully captures the previous decade in much the same way Tom Wolfe captured the 1960s and 1970s.
Rating: 3
Summary: Mostly only historic value.
Comment: Articles published in different newspapers and magazines in the years 1980-1990 about major and lesser financial adventures.
The best ones for me, were 'Eddie the Chop House Boy' - about a stock salesman who continues to take everybody for a ride at different broker houses and 'Taken for a ride on the Customer's yacht' about Louis Rukeyzer as emperor without clothes.
Most articles have only historic value: the S & L scandal, Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, the RJR Nabisco battle, the cornering of the bond market by Salomon brothers, the LBO mania (leveraged Rip-Off) and the end of the Japanese bull market (kamikaze capitalism).
All articles written in an ironical or sarcastic style.
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Title: Next: The Future Just Happened by Michael Lewis ISBN: 0393323528 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis ISBN: 0140143459 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis ISBN: 0140296468 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 08 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders by Connie Bruck ISBN: 0140120904 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1989 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: DEN OF THIEVES by James B. Stewart ISBN: 067179227X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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