House of Cards

byWilliam D. Cohan

How Wall Street's Gamblers Broke Capitalism

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It was Wall Street's toughest investment bank, taking risks where others feared to tread, run by testosterone-fuelled gamblers who hung a sign saying 'let's make nothing but money' over the trading floor.

Yet in March 2008 the 85-year-old firm Bear Stearns was brought to its knees - and global economic meltdown began. With unprecedented access to the people at the eye of the financial storm, William Cohan tells the outrageous story of how Wall Street's entire house of cards came crashing down.

'Gripping ... high drama ... riveting, edge-of-the-seat reading' Michio Kakutani, The New York Times

It is too early to say who will emerge as the definitive chroniclers of this crisis, but this book by William Cohan ... seems likely to end up as one of the key texts

The Observer

About William D. Cohan

William D. Cohan is The New York Times bestselling author of The Price of Silence, Money and Power, House of Cards, and The Last Tycoons, and most recently, Power Failure, named Best Book of 2022 by the New Yorker, the Financial Times, and the Economist. A former Wall Street investment banker, he was a special correspondent at Vanity Fair and is a founding partner of Puck. His writing appears in The New York Times, the Financial Times, the Atlantic and the Washington Post, among others.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780141039596
  • Length: 608 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 415g
  • Price: £17.99
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