The inside account of a financial meltdown that reshaped Wall Street In 1983, Lew Glucksman, then co-CEO of the heralded investment bank Lehman Brothers, demanded the resignation of chairman Pete Peterson, with whom he had long argued over how to manage the company. Shockingly, Peterson, who had taken charge a decade earlier and led Lehman from near collapse to record profits, agreed to step down. In this meticulously researched volume, Ken Auletta...

Michael Lewis describes what it was like to be young and rich in the era of investment banking on Wall Street during the 1980's. He gives a step-by-step description of what it was like making progress through the ranks of a powerful investment banking firm.

"A novel that follows seven different characters as their fictional lives intertwine and become connected by the real-life events surrounding the March 2, 2000 spinoff of hand-held computer company Palm Computing by its parent technology company, 3Com." --