{"product_id":"9780141036892","title":"The Last Tycoons : The Secret History of Lazard Freres \u0026 Co. by William D. Cohan","description":"William D. Cohan's The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Fr?res \u0026amp; Co. is the astonishing story of the world's most elite and legendary investment bank - and the men who reigned over it all.     For over 150 years Lazard Fr?res had stood apart from other Wall Street firms by offering ultra-wealthy clients the wisdom of its 'Great Men': from Felix Rohatyn, the escapee from Nazi-occupied France turned financial genius, to Michel David-Weill, the inscrutable French billionaire 'Sun King'; from Steve Rattner, the boy wonder from Long Island who clashed violently with the old guard, to larger-than-life CEO Bruce Wasserstein, 'Bid-Em-Up-Bruce', who broke with the bank's traditions and made himself billions in the process. They amassed unimaginable fortunes and would stop at nothing to make a deal, until their titanic egos started to jeopardize everything.     In The Last Tycoons William Cohan, himself a former high-level Wall Street banker, takes us into their mysterious and secretive world, telling a story of ruthless ambition, whispered advice, explosive feuds, glamorous mistresses, decadent excesses and unimaginable wealth.     'Spellbinding'??Financial Times  'A definitive account ... it lives up to the billing'??The Times  'Has sent a jolt through Lazard and the rest of Wall Street'??Wall Street Journal  William D. Cohan was an award-winning investigative journalist before embarking on a seventeen-year career as an investment banker on Wall Street. His first book, The Last Tycoons, about Lazard, won the 2007 Financial Times\/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and was a New York Times bestseller. His second book, House of Cards, also a bestseller, is an account of the last days of Bear Stearns \u0026amp; Co. He is also the author of Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56224327205237,"sku":"9780141036892","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141036892.jpg?v=1762223525","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780141036892","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}