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 | Barbarians at the Gate
Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
Spending over six months on the New York Times bestseller list, Barbarians at the Gate has been called one of the most influential business books of all time. It gives a definitive behind-the-scenes account of the largest takeover in Wall Street history at the time: the $25 billion leveraged buyout of the RJR Nabisco Corporation. |
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 | Baruch: My Own Story
Bernard M. Baruch
Few people have managed to be hugely successful in the fields of business and politics like Bernard Mannes Baruch. By the age of 30, as a broker and partner at Arthur Housman & Co., he built up a fortune speculating in commodities. He later advised American Presidents such as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman. In his fascinating autobiography, Baruch shares his investment philosophies and also tells the famous story of how he used the term "gamble" in describing a mining deal he was pitching to J.P. Morgan. Morgan ended the meeting instantly and never ever did business with him. Baruch did go on to do the deal with other partners and made a staggering fortune but always regretted his choice of words... |
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 | Big Deal: Mergers and Acquisitions in the Digital Age
Bruce Wasserstein
This is one of the most thorough books on both the history and the specific details of the mergers & acquisitions game. Big Deal is about this high stakes game of corporate mergers and acquisitions. Author Bruce Wasserstein, himself a participant in many of these deals through his firm Wasserstein, Perella & Co., writes a highly readable and fascinating account that covers the history, personalities, and mechanics of mergers and acquisitions. |
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 | Bloomberg by Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg with Matthew Winkler
Every entrepreneur, every aspiring entrepreneur, must read this book. The Bloomberg terminal is ubiquitous on Wall Street. The man whose name is on each terminal, and who is today the multi-billionaire Mayor of New York City, tells the story about how he's built his business and his life. |
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 | Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
Roger Lowenstein
The best book ever written on the investing legend! Tons of books have been written about Warren Buffett. Some educational institutions have even created courses based on his business philosophies. But this book, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein, is widely agreed to be the best one ever written. When you finish reading it, you will agree too. |
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 | Capital Instincts: Life as an Entrepreneur, Financier, and Athlete
Richard Brandt and Thomas Weisel
For over three decades, Thomas W. Weisel has been one of the leading figures of the financial scene that blossomed along with Silicon Valley, becoming an integral part of its phenomenal success. In Capital Instincts, you'll follow Thom Weisel from his youth as an extraordinarily talented athlete from Milwaukee, to his present position as one of the most influential investment bankers of our time. |
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 | Comic Wars
Dan Raviv
The tale of the epic battle between two financial wizards - Ronald Perelman and Carl Icahn - for control of Marvel Entertainment. In the late 1980s, financier Ronald Perelman, worth billions and riding high after his hostile takeover of the cosmetics firm Revlon, bought Marvel Entertainment - legendary creator of Captain America, the Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and other superheroes - and he had big plans. He not only began churning out more comic books, he also acquired sports cards and other subsidiaries, impressing Wall Street so much that after he took the company public, Marvel's market value ballooned to over $3 billion... |
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 | Confessions of a Street Addict
Jim Cramer
Everyone on Wall Street knows Jim Cramer. Everyone knows the colorful and hyperactive host of CNBC's Mad Money. But do you know he was homeless? Do you know where it all began for him? In Confessions of a Street Addict, Cramer takes us back to where his fascination, and present-day addiction, to the stock market started and how it grew over the years. The middle-class kid from the Philadelphia suburbs went to Harvard, where he began managing money... |
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