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• Title:The devil's casino : friendship, betrayal, and the high-stakes games played inside Lehman Brothers / Vicky Ward.
  
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• Author/Creator:Ward, Vicky.
  
• Published/Created:Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ©2010.
  

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  • Location:DAVID LAM LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HG5129.N5 W37 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Lehman Brothers.
  Investment banking--New York (State)--New York--History.
  Investment advisors--New York (State)--New York--History.
  Finance--New York (State)--New York--History.
  
• Description:xvii, 270 p., [8] p. of plates : ill ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary:Ward takes you inside Lehman's highly charged offices where you'll meet beloved leaders who were erased from the corporate history books, but who could have taken the firm in a very different direction had they not fallen victim to infighting and their own weaknesses.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-255) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780470540862
  
• Contents:Part one: the Ponderosa boys
  A long, hot summer
  The beginning
  The captain
  The "take-under"
  Slamex
  The phoenix rises
  Independence day
  The stiletto
  The Ides of March
  Eulogies
  Part two: the echo chamber
  Russian winter
  Lehman's desperate housewives
  The young lions
  9/11
  No ordinary Joe
  The talking head
  The sacrificial ram
  Korea's rising sum
  The wart on the end of Lehman's nose
  Damned flood?
  Closing the books
  Epilogue.