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Ripped from the Page of the Wall Street Journal
This book reads like Kelly's articles in the Wall Street Journal. For anyone that hasn't read her it's quite good. I actually had the pleasure of reading her articles real-time as these events unfolded and I was intrigued to see what additional insights she would pour into this story. Unfortunately, not much.
The book reads like a stitching of Kelly's separate articles to strain to reach the final pages.I do like that she's objective. Meaning that, unlike William Cohan's "House of Cards" Kelly provides us with a objective viewpoint while providing insight from first hand sources that don't infer one player or another's opinion(s) of what occurred.
The reality is between this book, "House of Cards" and Roger Lowenstein's "When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management" a reader can actually get a comprehensive story of Bear Stearns. It just takes you three different reads and an intermittent story-line to get there.1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Anonymous
Posted July 9, 2009
THE FIRST BIG TAKE-OVER
No matter who you are, or what you do, what you have or what you don't have - this event had a HUGE impact on everybody!
This book tells it like it was - comfort levels, greed, the need for bigger, better and more - all impacted by lack of communication within!
Many people were hurt, stunned, devastated and in total turmoil with this event and, I'm sure, there are thousands that may still be; nobody was prepared for something that occurred so quickly and nothing will be the same for those involved.
"Street Fighters" tells the story of what was taking place the last few days as well as how and why - GREAT book!! Couldn't put it down!1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Anonymous
Posted May 16, 2009
Compelling--great read
the drama of the final days is compelling and very well told
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Posted January 18, 2012
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haven't read it yet
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Anonymous
Posted January 3, 2012
good summary of what happened
book was a good summary of what happened but writing was choppy. glad i bought it on discount
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