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Overview

In the midst of this disastrous economic climate, one executive has weathered the storm more deftly than any other: Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, considered the dominant fi gure on Wall Street. Dimon's eleventh-hour acquisition, in 2008, of fl ailing archrival Bear Stearns stunned the world. Even more incredible: JPMorgan's continued success in the face of an industry-wide meltdown that has seen its CEO become a paragon of finance.

In Last Man Standing, award-winning journalist Duff McDonald chronicles Dimon's tumultuous rise: from his joining the legendary Sandy Weill at American Express fresh out of Harvard Business School to their ...

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Overview

In the midst of this disastrous economic climate, one executive has weathered the storm more deftly than any other: Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, considered the dominant fi gure on Wall Street. Dimon's eleventh-hour acquisition, in 2008, of fl ailing archrival Bear Stearns stunned the world. Even more incredible: JPMorgan's continued success in the face of an industry-wide meltdown that has seen its CEO become a paragon of finance.

In Last Man Standing, award-winning journalist Duff McDonald chronicles Dimon's tumultuous rise: from his joining the legendary Sandy Weill at American Express fresh out of Harvard Business School to their building of Citigroup (and Dimon's unceremonious ouster) to his rescue of Bank One and, at the unprecedented age of forty-eight, his ascension to the top post at JPMorgan Chase — a bank he transformed from a broken institution to the sine qua non of global banking in five short years.

Upon gaining unfettered access to Dimon, McDonald spent countless hours interviewing him and his full circle of family, friends, and colleagues to provide an unprecedented and deeply personal look at this extraordinary figure. Moving beyond Dimon's "fortress" balance sheets, McDonald reveals a dedicated family man whose uncanny facility with numbers and tireless work ethic are complemented by fierce loyalty and an unrelenting aversion to offi ce politics. Dimon, for the first time, shares detailed insights on the heart of his business and management philosophies, and industry titans such as Weill and Warren Buffett offer their analyses of his career.

At a time when Dimon's competitors watch their companies crumble, JPMorgan not only continues to weather the worst period in the history of Wall Street but is growing by leaps and bounds. The defi nitive biography of Jamie Dimon, Last Man Standing is by far the most comprehensive portrait of the only man in fi nance today who can be called an American hero.

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Nicely crafted debut recounting JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon's climb to the pinnacle of American finance. Now 53, Dimon became Wall Street's "banker of choice" in 2008 when he executed the historic deal that saved the investment bank Bear Stearns and helped the U.S. government prevent widespread financial calamity. In this admiring biography, New York contributing editor McDonald describes a precocious stockbroker's son who grew up on Park Avenue and vowed at age nine that he would make a fortune one day. Serious, headstrong and outspoken, Dimon earned a Harvard MBA and joined Wall Street legend Sandy Weill at American Express in 1982, becoming the older man's protege. Together they spent 15 years making a fortune. Weill hunted out financial firms worth acquiring, and Dimon closed the deals, becoming president of Primerica at age 35. Along the way Dimon developed his signature, regularly updated lists of "Things I Owe People" and "Things People Owe Me" and his credo that "it's more important to do 10 things and get eight of them right than to do five and get them all right." Their colossal egos finally clashing, Weill and Dimon fell out in the late '90s, with Dimon resigning to head Bank One and then the global megabank JPMorgan Chase, which he tranformed into a high-performing firm with his trademark cost-cutting and integration of systems. McDonald shows how Dimon came out from under Weill's shadow, exercising a penchant for openness and debate-driven decision-making and a commitment to the belief that CEOs should "drill down" (he demanded 50-page books with monthly numbers from each division head). With a new maturity that allowed him to avoid the subprime meltdown, Dimon eventuallyeclipsed his mentor/competitor Weill, winning recognition as a Wall Street hero for rescuing Bear Stearns and, writes the author, "a leader who knew how to make a company grow." McDonald produces a seamless narrative of the complex deals and power struggles that characterized Dimon's career throughout this heady period. A must-read for the business crowd. Agent: David Kuhn/Kuhn Projects

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  • ISBN-13: 9781416599531
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publication date: 10/6/2009
  • Pages: 352
  • Product dimensions: 6.40 (w) x 9.58 (h) x 0.55 (d)

Meet the Author


Duff McDonald is a New York-based journalist. A contributing editor at New York magazine, he has also written for Vanity Fair, GQ, WIRED, CondÉ Nast Portfolio, and Time, among other publications. Once a regular guest on ABC's World News Now, McDonald has also appeared on CNN, CNNfn, Fox News, CNBC, and NPR. In 2004, he was the recipient of two Canadian National Magazine Awards—Best Business Story (gold) and Best Investigative Reporting (silver)—for “The Black Watch”—in National Post Business. A Canadian, McDonald lives in Bronxville, New York, with his wife, Caroline, and daughter, Marguerite.

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PROLOGUE

On the morning of September 18, 2008, the phone rang in Jamie Dimon’s office. It was Hank Paulson, the secretary of the treasury. For the second time in six months, Paulson had a pressing question for the chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase. Would Dimon be interested in acquiring the floundering investment bank Morgan Stanley—at no cost whatsoever?

During one of the most tumultuous months in the history of the stock market—stocks fell 27 percent between August 29 and October 10, 2008—the storied investment bank Lehman Brothers had already failed, the brokerage giant Merrill Lynch had been sold to Bank of America, and the insurance heavyweight AIG had received an emergency loan of $85 billion from the federal government. One of the only remaining questions was whether it would be Morgan Stanley or Goldman Sachs that fell next. The government was desperately seeking to stave off what could have been a wipeout of Wall Street. And here was Paulson, offering Dimon Morgan Stanley for the bargain basement price of $0 per share.

At the government’s urging, Dimon had agreed to take over Bear Stearns for $2 a share in March 2008, in a whirlwind 48-hour deal. (The price was ultimately raised to $10.) The transaction had catapulted JPMorgan Chase to the forefront of the financial industry and established Dimon as the government’s banker of last resort. “Some are coming to Washington for help,” Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, later said. “Others are coming to Washington to help.”

Considered in a historical light, a takeover of Morgan Stanley would have been much more profound than that of Bear Stearns. Dimon was already being compared to John Pierpont Morgan, the legendary banker who was his company’s founder, and this deal would have meant a reassembling of the empire that had been forcibly dismantled during the Great Depression, when banks were barred from the securities trade. Dimon, in other words, would have been sitting atop the very same empire his firm’s namesake had lorded over nearly a century before.

But it was not to be. Dimon reportedly said he’d discuss it with his board, but his initial view was that his bank shouldn’t do it—it would involve a bloodbath for employees on both sides, a doubling of risk, and years of distraction for the company. What’s more, the ultimate cost of a deal would have been quite substantial, whether in terms of layoffs, writedowns, or a de-risking of Morgan Stanley’s balance sheet. (Dimon has always said it doesn’t make sense for two major investment banks to merge.) Moreover, his team was already busy preparing a bid to take over the deposits and loans of the Seattle-based bank Washington Mutual, also on the verge of failure.

The amazing thing: Paulson really didn’t have anyone else to turn to. Dimon was quite literally the only chief of a major bank to have properly prepared for the hundred-year storm that had hit Wall Street with such vengeance. Everyone had known that the capital base of the financial sector had been in desperate need of shoring up, but Jamie Dimon was alone among his peers in having actually done something instead of just talking about it. As a result, of all the actions taken by the government in the fifteen months since the crisis had started, the only thing that had really worked was giving it to Jamie. Which is exactly why a desperate Paulson was trying to do it again. But he proved unable to persuade Dimon to pull off a third major deal in 2008. Morgan Stanley eventually pulled through. But even without this deal, Dimon’s reputation continued to ascend to new heights. In the midst of the most serious and far-reaching financial crisis since the 1930s—much of it caused by plain old avarice and bad judgment—Dimon and JPMorgan Chase stood apart. Much of the melodramatic coverage of Wall Street postcrisis has focused on its flaws—the hubris and the greed. Jamie Dimon’s story contains the opposites—the values of clarity, consistency, integrity, and courage. By sticking to them, Dimon has unquestionably become the dominant banking executive of his era. “Banking is a very good business if you don’t do anything dumb,” says Warren Buffett. “Morris Shapiro said long ago that there are more banks than bankers, and that’s fundamentally the problem. But Jamie is a banker from head to toe.”

© 2009 Duff McDonald

Table of Contents

Prologue vii

1 Banking in the Blood 1

2 The Mentor 15

3 The Subprime of His Life 30

4 Building the Perfect Deal Machine 44

5 His Own Man 66

6 The Boiling Within 86

7 A Brief View From the Top 98

8 Everything But Kilimanjaro 117

9 The Outsider 143

10 The Return 171

11 Winning By Not Losing 202

12 All That He Ever Wanted 240

13 The New Power Broker 275

14 Will Giants Still Walk the Earth? 308

Epilogue 321

Bibliography 329

Acknowledgments 330

Index 332

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  • Posted October 12, 2009

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    Fascinating - and flattering - profile of financial power

    Duff McDonald's book covers a fascinating historical moment - the 2008-2009 Wall Street debacle - by profiling a pivotal character in the thick of it, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase. Having spent extensive time with Dimon, McDonald combines his reporting with published sources, Dimon's own writings and statements, and interviews with his associates, employees or relatives. McDonald covers Dimon's youth, business school education and evolving career. Dimon was a nonconformist in business school and politics, an astute lieutenant of his mentor Sandy Weill, and a pivotal figure in the financial crisis. Notably, he preserved JPMorgan Chase, bought Bear Stearns and helped lead the market back to stability. Readers interested in a critical take on Dimon may find the book too flattering, but if you want to see how the financial wars looked from the CEO's chair, getAbstract recommends this intriguing perspective.

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    After being decidedly disappointed with the House of Dimon I was pleasantly surprised with Duff McDonald's, Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase. McDonald doesn't get so caught up in the rush ahead to gleefully talk about present day events but instead takes a more tried & true approach of walking the reader chronologically through his early childhood, provides background into his heritage, parents and sibling. All of which allows a person who may already be familiar with Dimon to gain an additional few dimensions of what went into his development as a person.

    One aspect that feels uncomfortable is that early on McDonald seems to be cobbling together pieces of other books to recreate his novel. While good for a historical thesis because it shows detail of research it begs the question, why read this book when I should be reading the ones McDonald quotes ad nausea.

    It was also interesting to see the juxtaposition of the description of events particularly Dimon's final days at Citibank in comparison to those described in Sandy Weill's tomb, The Real Deal: My Life in Business and Philanthropy. There is of course the very historic blow-up between Dimon & Maughan that seems to contain less expletives then other renditions I've read as well as a more detailed look at that final meeting where Weill tells Dimon it's time for him to go. While this isn't an autobiography one can tell that McDonald did have pretty good access to Dimon as well as several people close enough to him to be able to provide that counter-perspective.

    It's also great that McDonald still took the time to go through Dimon's experiences at Bank One from how he whiled away his time following his Citibank departure to the early recruiting at Bank One and then to eventual take-over of the institution and the initiatives he implemented. The flow and cadence are well done to enable the reader to digest each event as they occur without the unnecessary correlation to how a specific skill helped him later in his career until we get to the crescendo of the piece which is, naturally, Dimon's return triumphant return to New York City with JPMorgan Chase.

    But the crescendo itself is somewhat underwhelming in the details. When one reads other novels around the financial crisis, particularly those involving Bear Stearns or even Andrew Ross Sorkin's, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System - and Themselves you get a sense that there was a lot more meat on the bones that McDonald could have put together in relation to Dimon and the actions he (or his team) took. And yet all in all, this book delivers more then what one could have read in various news publications/stories and provides the reader a nice in-depth look at the man who for all intents and purposes was.the last man standing.

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  • Posted December 27, 2009

    Great insight on Jaime Dimon and Chase!

    This is a truly entertaining biography of Jaime Dimon.

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