Liar's Poker

Michael Lewis

W. W. Norton, Mar 15, 2010 - Business & Economics - 256 pages

The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker.

Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush. Liar’s Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied years—a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business. From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game of bluffing and deception, here is Michael Lewis’s knowing and hilarious insider’s account of an unprecedented era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune.

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User Review  - Ankur Rastogi - Goodreads

Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis is one the most brutal and honest book I have read about the greed in the investment banking industry. Its no surprise that there always has been tremendous amount of ...

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User Review  - Katrina - Goodreads

Interesting Wall St memoir - Lewis worked for an investment bank in the late '70s through to beyond the '87 crash. The anecdotes from actual time in the business keep this a surprisingly fun read ...

About the author

Michael Lewis, the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker, The Money Culture, The New New Thing, Moneyball, The Blind Side, Panic, Home Game, The Big Short, and Boomerang, among other works, lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and three children.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Liar's Poker
• Author: Michael Lewis
• Publisher: W. W. Norton, 2010
• ISBN: 0393066258, 9780393066258
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Workplace Culture