Barbarians at the Gate - Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
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Barbarians at the Gate

Updated: 7 Sep 2020
“One of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the 1980’s.”—New York Times Book ReviewA #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco. An enduring masterpiece of investigative journalism by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, it includes a new afterword by the authors that brings this remarkable story of greed and double-dealings up to date twenty years after the famed deal. The Los Angeles Times calls Barbarians at the Gate, “Superlative.” The Chicago Tribune raves, “It’s hard to imagine a better story...and it’s hard to imagine a better account.” And in an era of spectacular business crashes and federal bailouts, it still stands as a valuable cautionary tale that must be heeded.
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“I remember reading ‘Barbarians at the Gate’ when it came out and just being like, ‘This is incredible. This is like gaming, but with real people in real life,’” Paltrow told Reid Hoffman on the Masters of Scale podcast.
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Books like Liar’s Poker, for instance, about traders in the 1980s, or Barbarians at the Gate, which is much more about the early days of investment banking. All of that really got me into wanting to work in finance.
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