TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ward,Vicky
TI  - The devil's casino : friendship, betrayal, and the high-stakes games played inside Lehman Brothers / 
SN  - 9780470540862
AV  - HG5129 .W2101 2010
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Hoboken, N.J.
PB  - John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
KW  - Lehman Brothers
KW  - Investment banking
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - History
KW  - Investment advisors
KW  - Finance
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-255) and index; 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 houswives -- 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
N2  - 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
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