Ward - The Devils Casino: Friendship, Betrayal and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers
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Lehman Brothers, the oldest partnership on Wall Street, was always a brilliant but cursed child. Its life, and death, tells us why it was a magnet for talent, and why it was toxic. There have been a slew of terrific books on how Wall Street brought the economy to its knees, but in The Devils Casino, Vicky Ward does something unusual. She takes the reader inside. Not just inside the financial instruments, but inside the culture that sired them; inside the families, including the spouses and children that enjoyed lavish riches; and inside the internal rivalries and mismanagement that speeded the fall. Readers of this remarkable tale do not stand outside looking in, their noses pressed to the glass; we are inside looking out. We feel the seething greed and jealousiesthe stuff that makes novels come alive. In the end, the child dies. But because of the way Vicky Ward unspools the saga of Lehman, its life and death will both instruct and forever sear your memory.
KEN AULETTA, author of Googled: The End of the World as We Know It and Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman
The Devils Casino tells the riveting story of the four best friends who rebuilt Lehman Brothers, vowing to be the good guys of Wall Street, only to find themselves corrupted by the poisonous culture there. With its illicit affairs, treachery, sances, boardroom backstabbing, and friendships and families torn apart, the book reads like a page-turning thriller. Who would guess that the story of life at Lehman would turn out to be even more dramatic than the firms headline-grabbing, economy-shaking demise.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, cofounder and Editor in Chief of The Huffington Post
The Devils Casino is the totally compelling true story, deeply researched but as exciting as a thrillerthe almost mythical saga of four friends destroyed by money, sex, and ambition, with a cast of greedy larger-than-life Wall Street monsters, and an intimate history of the fall of Lehman. As exciting and important as Barbarians at the Gate, its a gripping portrait of American society and financial culture that explains much of what is happening today. I can already see the movie.
SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
The Devils Casino is more than a history of Lehman Brothers; it is a saga of four friends who were prepared to sacrifice everythingincluding each otherin the quest for money and power. The devil here is not in the details, but in the souls of the men who lost their moral compass while looking for the corner suite. Vicky Ward has written a superb social history that should serve as a warning and a reminder to all who work on Wall Street.
Dr. AMANDA FOREMAN, author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
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