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Liar's Poker is a non-fiction, semi-autobiographical book by Michael Lewis describing the author's experiences as a bond salesman on Wall Street during the late 1980s. [1] First published in 1989, it is considered one of the books that defined Wall Street during the 1980s, along with Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, and the fictional The Bonfire ...
Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) [ 1 ][ 2 ] is an American author and financial journalist. [ 3 ] He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics. He is known for his nonfiction work, particularly his coverage of financial crises and behavioral finance.
Liar's Poker: The Great Powers, Yugoslavia and the Wars of the Future ( French: Poker menteur : les grandes puissances, la Yougoslavie et les prochaines guerres) is a 1998 book by Michel Collon. [1] It was originally written in French and was later translated to English. It speculates on the long-term goals of the United States and other great ...
As an insider's look at the workings of a storied investment bank, the memoir is similar to Michael Lewis' classic Liar's Poker. But it's also grittier and more emotional, supplying a human face ...
93 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. Liar's Poker is a 1998 American crime drama film directed by Jeff Santo, starring Richard Tyson, Caesar Luisi, Jimmy Blondell and Flea.
LAS VEGAS — The notion is more of mystique than reality, of Portland Trail Blazers general manager Joe Cronin tossing his top chip to the middle of the table at one of the poker rooms here ...
Boomerang. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine is a nonfiction book by Michael Lewis about the build-up of the United States housing bubble during the 2000s. It was released on March 15, 2010, by W. W. Norton & Company. It spent 28 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list, and was the basis for the 2015 film of the same name.
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco is a 1989 book about the leveraged buyout (LBO) of RJR Nabisco, written by investigative journalists Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. The book is based upon a series of articles written by the authors for The Wall Street Journal. [1] The book was made into a 1993 made-for-TV movie by HBO, also ...