The Last Tycoons Explained

The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.
Author:William D. Cohan
Country:United States
Language:English
Subject:Corporate History, Finance, Investment banking
Publisher:Doubleday
Media Type:Print (hardback)
Pages:752 pp.
Isbn:0385514514
Followed By:House of Cards

The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. is the debut book by William D. Cohan. It was released on April 3, 2007 by Doubleday.[1] It focuses on the history of the prominent investment bank Lazard Frères.[2] The book won the 2007 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.[3]

Author

William D. Cohan, as of 2013 an author of three New York Times best-selling books about Wall Street, is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, and a former award-winning investigative newspaper reporter based in Raleigh, North Carolina. He worked on Wall Street for seventeen years. He spent six years at Lazard Frères in New York, then Merrill Lynch, and later became a managing director at JP Morgan Chase.

Content

  1. Great Men
  2. Tomorrow, the Lazard House Will Go Down
  3. Original Sin
  4. You Are Dealing with Greed and Power
  5. Felix the Fixer
  6. The Savior of New York
  7. The Sun King
  8. Felix for President
  9. The Cancer is Greed
  10. The Vicar
  11. The Boy Wonder
  12. The Franchise
  13. Felix Loses It
  14. It's a White Man's World
  15. The Heir Apparent
  16. All the Responsibility but None of the Authority
  17. He Lit up a Humongous Cigar and Puffed it in our Faces for Half an Hour
  18. Lazard May Go Down Like the Titanic
  19. Bid-'em-up Bruce
  20. Civil War
  21. The End of a Dynasty[4]

Review

—The New York Times[5]

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/317509.The_Last_Tycoons?from_search=true The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. by William D. Cohan at Goodreads.com
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20150125004114/http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2007-04-29/piercing-the-lazard-mystique Piercing The Lazard Mystique
  3. Web site: Business Book of the Year 2007 . Financial Times . 25 October 2007 . 30 May 2012.
  4. http://search.library.utoronto.ca/details?6327267 Thursday, February 26, 2009 The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.
  5. Web site: Bankers Behaving Badly. nytimes.com. 2015-07-23. May 27, 2007. RICHARD . PARKER.

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