11 books like When Genius Failed
More Money Than God
More Money Than God
Based on unprecedented access to the industry, including three hundred hours of interviews, economist/journalist Sebastian Mallaby tells the inside story of hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s and 1970s to their role in the financial crisis of 2007-2009. Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge fund moguls have become the It Boys of 21st century capitalism. Ken Griffin started…
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Conspiracy of Fools
Conspiracy of Fools
In late 2001, the Enron Corporation--a darling of the financial world, a company whose executives were friends of presidents and the powerful--imploded virtually overnight, leaving vast wreckage in its wake and sparking a criminal investigation that would last for years. Journalist Eichenwald transforms the Enron scandal into a rip-roaring narrative of epic proportions, suitable for readers of…
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Power Failure
Power Failure
Power Failure: the Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron follows the story of Enron from the perspective of Sherron Watkins, the vice president who exposed its illegal practices, and traces how its "anything goes" culture led to its being hailed a model company until its highly publicized collapse.
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The Cult of We
The Cult of We
"The definitive inside story of WeWork, its audacious founder, and what its epic unraveling says about a financial system drunk on the elixir of Silicon Valley innovation-from the Wall Street Journal correspondents whose scoop-filled reporting hastened the company's downfall. WeWork would be worth $10 trillion, more than any other company in the world. It wasn't just an office space provider. It…
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Black Edge
Black Edge
"Steven A. Cohen is a Wall Street legend. Born into a middle class family in a decidedly upper class suburb on Long Island, he was unpopular in high school and unlucky with girls. Then he went off to Wharton, and in 1992 launched the hedge fund SAC Capital, which grew into a $15 billion empire. He cultivated an air of mystery and reclusiveness--at one point, owned the copyright to almost every…
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Wall Street stories
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Piazza Tales
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Bartleby, the Scrivener
"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in two parts. The first part appeared in November 1853, with the conclusion published in December 1853. It was reprinted in Melville's The Piazza Tales in 1856 with minor textual alterations. The work is said to have been inspired, in part, by…
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Where Are the Customer's Yachts?
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The experience of literature
Table of Contents (the following all with commentaries/criticism): Sophocles - Oedipus Rex; William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of King Lear; Henrik Ibsen - The Wild Duck; Anton Chekhov - The Three Sisters; George Bernard Shaw - The Doctor's Dilemma; Luigi Pirandello - Six Characters in Search of an Author: a comdey in the making; William Butler Years - Purgatory; Bertolt Brecht - Galileo;…
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Short Stories -- Classic, Modern, Contemporary
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