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Barbarians at the Gate
- Author : Bryan Burrough,John Helyar
- Publisher : Harper Collins
- Release : 13 October 2009
“One of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the 1980’s.” —New York Times Book Review A #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco. An enduring masterpiece of investigative journalism by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, it includes a new afterword by the authors that brings this remarkable story of greed and double-dealings
Barbarians at the Gate
- Author : Bryan Burrough,John Helyar
- Publisher : Harper Collins
- Release : 28 October 2008
A book that stormed both the bestseller list and the public imagination, a book that created a genre of its own, and a book that gets at the heart of Wall Street and the '80s culture it helped define, Barbarians at the Gate has emerged twenty years after the tumultuous deal it so brilliantly recounts as a modern classic—a masterpiece of investigatory journalism and a rollicking book of corporate derring-do and financial swordsmanship. The fight to control RJR
Barbarians at the Gate
- Author : Bryan Burrough,John Helyar
- Publisher : HarpPeren
- Release : 21 January 1990
Over six months on the New York Times bestseller list, Barbarians at the Gate is the definitive account of the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's gripping record of the frenzy that overtook Wall Street in October and November of 1988 is the story of deal makers and pulicity flaks, of strategy meetings and society dinners, of boardrooms and bedrooms, giving us not only an unprecedentedly detailed look at how financial operations at the highest levels
Barbarians at the Gate
- Author : Bryan Burrough,John Helyar
- Publisher : Random House
- Release : 21 January 2021
The battle for the control of RJR Nabisco in the Autumn of 1988, which became the largest and most dramatic corporate takeover in American history, sent shock-waves through the international business world and became a symbol of the greed, excess and egotism of the eighties. Barbarians at the Gate recounts this two-month battle with breathtaking pace and flair, and transports back to the Wall Street empire before it crumbled, through the boardroom doors, into the midnight meetings, the betrayals, the deal
Barbarians at the Gate
- Author : Leonard Woolf
- Publisher : Hesperides Press
- Release : 01 May 2006
Originally published in the 1930s. An examination of the political powers in Europe and beyond. "This book was written before the conclusion of the treaty between Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany and before the outbreak of the war. Its general argument and conclusions seem to me to be confirmed by these events and I have therefore left the text exactly as it was written, even though in some sentences present tenses have now become past, Presidents, ex-Presidents, and probabilities certainties."
Barbarians at the Gate
- Author : Larry Gelbart
- Publisher : Unknown
- Release : 21 January 1992
Barbarians Inside the Gates--and Other Controversial Essays
- Author : Thomas Sowell
- Publisher : Hoover Institution Press Publi
- Release : 21 January 1999
A collection of essays that discusses such issues as the media, immigration, the minimum wage and multiculturalism.
The Lords of the Realm
- Author : John Helyar
- Publisher : Ballantine Books
- Release : 27 July 2011
"The ultimate chronicle of the games behind the game."—The New York Times Book Review Baseball has always inspired rhapsodic elegies on the glory of man and golden memories of wonderful times. But what you see on the field is only half the game. In this fascinating, colorful chronicle—based on hundreds of interviews and years of research and digging—John Helyar brings to vivid life the extraordinary people and dramatic events that shaped America's favorite pastime, from the dead-ball
Controversial Essays
- Author : Thomas Sowell
- Publisher : Hoover Press
- Release : 01 September 2013
One of conservatism's most articulate voices dissects today's most important economic, racial, political, education, legal, and social issues, sharing his entertaining and thought-provoking insights on a wide range of contentious subjects. --"This book contains an abundance of wisdom on a large number of economic issues." --Mises Review
The New Financial Capitalists
- Author : George P. Baker,George David Smith
- Publisher : Cambridge University Press
- Release : 13 October 1998
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts's approach to leveraged buyouts was an important aspect of the corporate restructuring and governance reforms in the American economy from the mid-1970s through 1990. During that period, KKR crafted a series of progressively more elaborate deals tailored to specific companies and market conditions. Through its creative debt financing and its relationships with an evolving cast of investors, companies, and managers, KKR drove the scale and scope of the buyout phenomenon to unprecedented highs. This book, first published
Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library
- Author : Ed D'Angelo
- Publisher : Library Juice Press, LLC
- Release : 01 February 2010
Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library is a philosophical and historical analysis of how the rise of consumerism has led to the decline of the original mission of public libraries to sustain and promote democracy through civic education. Through a reading of historical figures such as Plato, Helvetius, Rousseau, and John Stuart Mill, the book shows how democracy and even capitalism were originally believed to depend upon the moral and political education that public libraries (and other institutions
Barbarians Within the Gates of Rome
- Author : Thomas S. Burns,Thomas Samuel Burns
- Publisher : Indiana University Press
- Release : 21 January 1994
Barbarians serving in the Roman army, like all other Roman soldiers, faced difficult choices as political events buffeted their leaders and threatened their livelihoods. Honorius, Stilicho, Alaric, Galla Placidia, Constantius III and usurpers like Constantine III and Attalus left their imprints upon these years - coloring the fabric of political and spiritual life as much as they affected military affairs.
Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860–1960
- Author : Gina Anne Tam
- Publisher : Cambridge University Press
- Release : 29 February 2020
Analyzes how fangyan (local Chinese languages or dialects) were central to the creation of modern Chinese nationalism.
Waiting for the Barbarians
- Author : J. M. Coetzee
- Publisher : Text Publishing
- Release : 02 July 2019
Four modern classics by the great South African writer, J. M. Coetzee, re-released with stylish new covers and accompanied by introductions from some of Australia’s brightest writing talents
Barbarians at the Gate
- Author : Patricia Donaher
- Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Release : 15 May 2020
The study of language attitudes is the investigation of beliefs expressed about the nature of language and its diverse usages, how these attitudes came to exist and persist, and how these attitudes shape social action and policy. Language attitude studies have illuminated our understanding of racial issues, social and economic stratification, cultural stereotypes, educational issues, folk linguistics, and, more recently, popular culture. This volume is an examination of four intersections in language attitudes research: Authority, Affiliation, Authenticity, and Accommodation. In