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Resumen del Editor
Phil Knight's gripping memoir, Shoe Dog, tells the rags-to-riches tale of how the multi-billion dollar international corporation Nike was built from the ground-up despite seemingly endless obstacles.
This FastReads Summary & Analysis offers supplementary material to Shoe Dog to help you distill the key takeaways, review the book's content, and further understand the writing style and overall themes from an editorial perspective. Whether you'd like to deepen your understanding, refresh your memory, or simply decide whether or not this book is for you, FastReads Summary & Analysis is here to help. Absorb everything you need to know in under 20 minutes!
What does this FastReads Summary & Analysis include?
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Original Book Summary Overview
In this enthralling memoir, Shoe Dog, Nike co-founder and chairman Phil Knight shares the riveting journey of the company from its early days in his parents' servant quarters to its current status as one of the world’s most renowned brands. He narrates how, young and fresh from graduate school, he sold his car and set off to see the world. Along the way, he would stop by Japan and make his college idea of pervading the American market with Japanese running shoes work. This book captures every significant moment of Knight’s relentless journey; from selling shoes from his Valiant to heading a company that grossed $16 billion in 2006.
Please Note: This is a summary, analysis and review of the book and not the original book. This analysis is meant as a supplement to, and not a replacement for, Shoe Dog.
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Sumner Murray Redstone, once feared as the “mad genius” of media who would dump his CEOs for mere wobbles in his companies’ stock price, had built one of the world’s greatest media empires through a series of audacious takeovers constructed to ensure that he always maintained control. Today he controls 80 percent of the voting shares of both Viacom and CBS, meaning that on a whim he could replace the entire boards of two public companies with a combined value of $40 billion.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Feels biased. Well researched, but not engaging.
- De Anonymous User en 04-03-19
De: Keach Hagey
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How Chuck Feeney Made and Gave Away a Fortune
- The Billionaire Who Wasn't
- De: Conor O'Clery
- Narrado por: Erik Synnestvedt
- Duración: 16 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 219
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 169
In 1988 Forbes magazine hailed Chuck Feeney as the 23rd richest American alive. No one knew until then that he was extremely wealthy. Or was he? Born during the Depression in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Feeney had made a fortune as co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers, the world's largest duty-free retail chain. How he did it is one of the great untold retail stories of modern times. The greater untold story is that Feeney had in fact given away his fortune, in its totality, to endow Atlantic Philanthropies - one of the most generous and secretive philanthropic funds in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Horizons I never knew were there!
- De DTU_Garza en 08-13-17
De: Conor O'Clery
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The Frackers
- The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters
- De: Gregory Zuckerman
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 15 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 852
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 732
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 738
Everyone knew it was crazy to try to extract oil and natural gas buried in shale rock deep below the ground. Everyone, that is, except a few reckless wildcatters - who risked their careers to prove the world wrong. Things looked grim for American energy in 2006. Oil production was in steep decline and natural gas was hard to find. The Iraq War threatened the nation’s already tenuous relations with the Middle East. China was rapidly industrializing and competing for resources.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Balanced approach on controversial topic
- De Chris en 01-02-14
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All the Rave
- The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning’s Napster
- De: Joseph Menn
- Narrado por: John Rubinstein
- Duración: 13 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 94
The definitive inside account of the file-sharing revolution that overthrew the music industry, All the Rave reveals the family betrayal, greed, and mismanagement that hijacked one the most fundamental innovations of the Internet era. Named one of the three best books of 2003 by Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc., All the Rave has been out of print until now and unavailable in most formats. Author and veteran technology journalist Joseph Menn also wrote 2010's Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords who are Bringing Down the Internet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Far-reaching Karma of Napster
- De Susie en 04-29-13
De: Joseph Menn
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Good for the Money
- My Fight to Pay Back America
- De: Bob Benmosche
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 64
In 2009, at the peak of the financial crisis, AIG - the American insurance behemoth - was sinking fast. It was the peg upon which the nation hung its ire and resentment during the financial crisis: the pinnacle of Wall Street arrogance and greed. When Bob Benmosche climbed aboard as CEO, it was widely assumed that he would go down with his ship. In mere months, he turned things around, pulling AIG from the brink of financial collapse and restoring its profitability.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worthwhile, informative, and just short of inspiring
- De Preston en 11-17-21
De: Bob Benmosche
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Alibaba
- The House That Jack Ma Built
- De: Duncan Clark
- Narrado por: Jim Meskimen
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,111
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,669
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,661
In just a decade and a half, Jack Ma, a man from modest beginnings who started out as an English teacher, founded Alibaba and built it into one of the world's largest companies, an e-commerce empire on which hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers depend. Alibaba's $25 billion IPO in 2014 was the largest global IPO ever. A Rockefeller of his age who is courted by CEOs and presidents around the world, Jack is an icon for China's booming private sector.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Strange: Best part of story happens "off-screen"
- De Tristan en 09-02-16
De: Duncan Clark
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Crash Course
- The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster
- De: Paul Ingrassia
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 108
In Crash Course, Ingrassia answers the big questions: Was Detroit's self-destruction inevitable? What were the key turning points? Why did Japanese automakers manage American workers better than the American companies themselves? Ingrassia also describes dysfunctional corporate cultures (even as GM's market share plunged, the company continued business as usual) and Detroit's perverse system of "inverse layoffs" (which allowed union members to invoke seniority to avoid work).
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4 out of 5 stars
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Contemporary History at Its Best
- De Roy en 04-19-10
De: Paul Ingrassia
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The Intelligent Entrepreneur
- De: Bill Murphy Jr.
- Narrado por: Fred Berman, L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,098
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 762
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 761
In 1998, three Harvard Business School graduates - two men and one woman - turned down six-figure salaries at big corporations, bet on themselves, and launched their own new companies. By their 10-year reunion, their audacity had paid huge dividends. They'd made many millions of dollars, created hundreds of jobs and left their mark on the world. The Intelligent Entrepreneur tells the compelling and instructive story of how these three young founders did it.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible waste $ and a lot of time
- De David en 01-23-11
De: Bill Murphy Jr.
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No Better Time
- The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet
- De: Molly Knight Raskin
- Narrado por: Christine Marshall
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
No Better Time tells of a young, driven mathematical genius who wrote a set of algorithms that would create a faster, better Internet. It's the story of a beautiful friendship between a loud, irreverent student and his soft-spoken MIT professor, of a husband and father who spent years struggling to make ends meet only to become a billionaire almost overnight with the success of Akamai Technologies, the Internet content delivery network he cofounded with his mentor.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An Overlooked Hero of 9-11
- De Jean en 05-27-16
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The Zeroes
- My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane
- De: Randall Lane
- Narrado por: Randall Lane
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 52
Magazine entrepreneur Randall Lane had a prime seat at Wall Street's biggest greed fest. The Zeroes is a memoir about the excesses and bad behavior of an outsider who got pulled into a crazy, self-contained world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A very entertaining tale
- De andy en 11-03-13
De: Randall Lane
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Ahead of the Curve
- Two Years at Harvard Business School
- De: Philip Delves Broughton
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 89
In 2004 Philip Delves Broughton abandoned a post as Paris bureau chief of the London Daily Telegraph to join 900 other would-be tycoons on the Harvard Business School's plush campus. With acute and often uproarious candor, he assesses the school's success at teaching the traits it extols as most important in business: leadership, decisiveness, ethical behavior, and work/life balance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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On one breath.
- De Atkins en 05-17-22
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Allen Klein
- The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll
- De: Fred Goodman
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Allen Klein was like no one the music industry had seen before. The hard-nosed business manager became infamous for allegedly catalyzing the Beatles' breakup and robbing the Rolling Stones, but the truth is both more complex and more fascinating.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Beatles' & Rolling Stones' Big Bad Manager
- De tru britty en 07-05-15
De: Fred Goodman
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DisneyWar
- De: James B. Stewart
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 25 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 996
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 988
DisneyWar is an enthralling tale of one of America's most powerful media and entertainment companies, the people who control it, and those trying to overthrow them. It tells a story that - in its sudden twists, vivid, larger-than-life characters, and thrilling climax - might itself have been the subject of a Disney classic - except that it's all true.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Really interesting story... No ending.
- De rotinaj en 12-18-17
De: James B. Stewart
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The Asylum
- The Renegades Who Hijacked the World's Oil Market
- De: Leah McGrath Goodman
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 16 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
They were a band of outsiders unable to get jobs with New York's gilded financial establishment. They would go on to corner the world's multitrillion-dollar oil market, reaping unimaginable riches while bringing the economy to its knees. Meet the self-anointed kings of the New York Mercantile Exchange. In some ways, they are everything you would expect them to be: a secretive, members-only club of men and women who live lavish lifestyles; cavort with politicians, strippers, and celebrities; and blissfully jacked up oil prices to nearly $150 a barrel while profiting off the misery of the working class.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A far better book than its come-on implies
- De Philo en 01-05-14
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The Lost Bank
- The Story of Washington Mutual - The Biggest Bank Failure in American History
- De: Kirsten Grind
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 554
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 475
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 475
During the most dizzying days of the financial crisis, Washington Mutual, a bank with hundreds of billions of dollars in its coffers, suffered a crippling bank run. The story of its final, brutal collapse in the autumn of 2008, and its controversial sale to JPMorgan Chase, is an astonishing account of how one bank lost itself to greed and mismanagement, and how the entire financial industry - and even the entire country - lost its way as well. Kirsten Grind’s The Lost Bank is a magisterial and gripping account of these events.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sad and Angry by Turn
- De Johnnie Walker en 07-24-12
De: Kirsten Grind
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Finish Big
- How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top
- De: Bo Burlingham
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 128
When pioneering business journalist and Inc. magazine editor at large Bo Burlingham wrote Small Giants, it became an instant classic for its original take on a common business problem - how to handle the pressure to grow. Now Burlingham is back to tackle an even more common problem - how to exit your company well. Sooner or later, all entrepreneurs leave their businesses and all businesses get sold, given away, or liquidated.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Begin with the end in mind
- De D. Hartzell en 02-05-15
De: Bo Burlingham
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American Icon
- Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company
- De: Bryce G. Hoffman
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 14 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,240
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,952
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,951
At the end of 2008, Ford Motor Company was just months away from running out of cash. With the auto industry careening toward ruin, Congress offered all three Detroit automakers a bailout. General Motors and Chrysler grabbed the taxpayer lifeline, but Ford decided to save itself. Under the leadership of charismatic CEO Alan Mulally, Ford had already put together a bold plan to unify its divided global operations, transform its lackluster product lineup, and overcome a dysfunctional culture of infighting, backstabbing, and excuses.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best business book I ever read
- De Michael en 10-07-12
De: Bryce G. Hoffman
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Barbarians at the Gate
- The Fall of RJR Nabisco
- De: Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
- Narrado por: Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
- Duración: 3 h y 2 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,392
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,110
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,108
Barbarians at the Gate has been called one of the most influential business books of all time, the definitive account of the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Bryan Burrough's and John Helyer's account of the frenzy that overtook Wall Street in October and November of 1988 gives us not only a detailed look at financial operations at the highest levels but a richly textured social history of wealth in the twilight of the Reagan era.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Abridged and Poorly Read
- De Jake en 01-24-13
De: Bryan Burrough, y otros