Liar's Poker: Rising through the Wreckage on Wall Street
The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker.\ Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush. Liar’s Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied years—a behind-the-scenes look at a...
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The bestselling and hilarious book that blew the doors off Wall Street's boardrooms and introduced the world to the writing of Michael Lewis. Library Journal As described by Lewis, liar's poker is a game played in idle moments by workers on Wall Street, the objective of which is to reward trickery and deceit. With this as a metaphor, Lewis describes his four years with the Wall Street firm Salomon Brothers, from his bizarre hiring through the training program to his years as a successful bond trader. Lewis illustrates how economic decisions made at the national level changed securities markets and made bonds the most lucrative game on the Street. His description of the firm's personalities and of the events from 1984 through the crash of October 1987 are vivid and memorable. Readers of Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities ( LJ 11/15/87) are likely to enjoy this personal memoir. BOMC and Fortune Book Club selection.-- Joseph Barth, U.S. Military Acad . Lib., West Point, N.Y.
Preface 9\ 1 Liar's Poker 13\ 2 Never Mention Money 21\ 3 Learning to Love Your Corporate Culture 39\ 4 Adult Education 67\ 5 A Brotherhood of Hoods 99\ 6 The Fat Men and Their Marvelous Money Machine 129\ 7 The Salomon Diet 167\ 8 From Geek to Man 189\ 9 The Art of War 229\ 10 How Can We Make You Happier? 255\ 11 When Bad Things Happen to Rich People 285\ Epilogue 307
\ Tom Wolfe“The funniest book on Wall Street I’ve ever read.”\ \ \ \ \ People Magazine“Often profane, always hilarious, right on the mark.”\ \ \ People“Often profane, always hilarious, right on the mark.”\ \ \ \ \ Fortune“So memorable and alive . . . one of those rare works that encapsulate and define an era.”\ \ \ \ \ Library JournalAs described by Lewis, liar's poker is a game played in idle moments by workers on Wall Street, the objective of which is to reward trickery and deceit. With this as a metaphor, Lewis describes his four years with the Wall Street firm Salomon Brothers, from his bizarre hiring through the training program to his years as a successful bond trader. Lewis illustrates how economic decisions made at the national level changed securities markets and made bonds the most lucrative game on the Street. His description of the firm's personalities and of the events from 1984 through the crash of October 1987 are vivid and memorable. Readers of Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities ( LJ 11/15/87) are likely to enjoy this personal memoir. BOMC and Fortune Book Club selection.-- Joseph Barth, U.S. Military Acad . Lib., West Point, N.Y.\ \ \ \ \ National Review“Lewis takes the reader through his schoolboy's progress as trainee and geek in the trading room, to high-powered swashbuckler. The author has a puckish appreciation for the comic. Yet he also has the knack of explaining precisely how complex deals really work. He provides the most readable explanation I've seen anywhere of the origin within Salomon Brothers of the mortgage-backed securities market....It is good history, and a good story.”\ \
