Barbarians at the Gate
Bryan Burrough & John Helyar · 1989
The fall of RJR Nabisco, told hour by hour: Ross Johnson's gilded mismanagement, the 1988 bidding war that swallowed Wall Street, and the $25 billion leveraged buyout that defined an era's greed. Two Wall Street Journal reporters turned deal coverage into narrative art. Every business thriller since gets measured against it.
The case against
A six-hundred-page book about a deal whose mechanics take twenty pages to explain, padded with private jets, golf memberships, and the same dinner party thrown four times. The reporting is peerless and the cast is enormous; keeping the bankers straight requires a notepad. Come for the spectacle, not the finance lesson; the LBO math stays offstage.
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