The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers

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Overview

"They were the Rat Pack of Wall Street. Four close friends: one a decorated war hero, one an emotional hippie, and two regular guys with big hearts, big dreams, and noble aims. They were going to get rich and prove that men like them - with zero financial training - could more than equal the Ivy League-educated, white-shoe bankers who were the competition. They were going to create an institution for others like them - hungry outsiders - and they were going to win, but not at the cost of their souls." "In short, they were going to be the good guys of finance." "These four men were determined to rebuild the broken brand of Lehman Brothers, America's oldest partnership, which had imploded in 1984 and was consumed by American Express and Shearson. For a decade or so, they drove into the office from the same middle-class town in Long Island at 4 a.m. They became known as the Huntington Mafia and the Ponderosa Boys." "At first, their unity and their grit were undefeatable. The men atop American Express and Shearson - supposedly their bosses - found they were no match for the defiant team spirit that confronted them in Lehman Commercial Paper Inc., which, in 1990, became known simply as Lehman." Under their watch, Lehman Brothers started to grow and became independent again in 1994. But along the way, something went wrong. The men slowly, perhaps inevitably, changed. As Lehman Brothers grew, so too did the cracks in and among the men who had rebuilt it. Until it all came undone on September 15, 2008.

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Graham Bowley
…well researched, chatty, lively…as she charts the rivalries of life on Wall Street, Ward entertains with rich detail…The book skillfully depicts the lives lived in the background of great clashing events. And it also hints at what Wall Street has become since the crisis, at the apparent dominance of two survivors, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase.
—The New York Times
Stanley Bing
Vicky Ward's The Devil's Casino is an able new entrant into this crowded genre…It chronicles the sad and messy end of the House of Lehman in a relatively terse and fast-moving 270 pages…Ward carefully and skillfully tracks the last 25 or so years of the great, doomed enterprise, and her portrait of a business entity is often engaging, spicy and amusing.
—The Washington Post

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780470540862
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 3/22/2010
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 270
  • Sales rank: 542,079
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Vicky Ward has been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2001, specializing in investigative reporting. She has profiled, among others, Jean-Marie Messier, Carly Fiorina, CIA agent Valerie Plame, businesswoman Louise MacBain, Morgan Stanley, the late Bruce Wasserstein, counterterrorism expert Richard Clarke, FranÇois Pinault, the Getty, the Guggenheim, Fairfield Greenwich Group (a Madoff feeder fund), Brooke Astor, and Kate Moss. Ward is a columnist for the Huffington Post and a former contributor to CNBC and Bloomberg TV. She was previously the executive editor of Talk magazine. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Financial Times, the London Times, and the Daily Telegraph. A native Briton, Ward was the runner-up for the Catherine Pakenham Award in 1994, Britain's most prestigious award for young women writers. She holds a master's degree in English literature from Cambridge University and has lived in New York City since 1997.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1

Pt. 1 The Ponderosa Boys

Ch. 1 A Long, Hot Summer 11

Ch. 2 The Beginning 17

Ch. 3 The Captain 25

Ch. 4 The "Take-Under" 35

Ch. 5 Slamex 47

Ch. 6 The Phoenix Rises 57

Ch. 7 Independence Day 67

Ch. 8 The Stiletto 81

Ch. 9 The Ides of March 89

Ch. 10 Eulogies 97

Pt. 2 The Echo Chamber

Ch. 11 Russian Winter 107

Ch. 12 Lehman's Desperate Housewives 127

Ch. 13 The Young Lions 135

Ch. 14 9/11 141

Ch. 15 No Ordinary Joe 157

Ch. 16 The Talking Head 173

Ch. 17 The Sacrificial Ram 183

Ch. 18 Korea's Rising Sum 191

Ch. 19 The Wart on the End of Lehman's Nose 199

Ch. 20 Damned Flood? 217

Ch. 21 Closing the Books 229

Epilogue 235

A Note About the Sources 241

Notes 247

References 255

Acknowledgments 257

Index 263

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  • Anonymous

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    Adding to the Lehman Literature

    Nowhere near as well written and/or as informative as Too Big to Fail.

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    a great book

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    she said she learn alot about wall street and what goes on behind the scenes of finance. she highly recomends it and i will be reading next as soon as she sends it to me

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