The last tycoons : the secret history of Lazard Frères & Co. / William D. Cohan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohan, William D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lazard Frères & Co--History.

Lazard Frères & Co.

Banks and banking--New York (State)--New York--History.

Banks and banking.

Bankers--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Bankers.

Banks and banking--France--History.

Bankers--France--Biography.

History.

France.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

742 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Doubleday, [2007]

Summary:

Wall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most powerful firms, Lazard Frères & Co. stood apart. Discretion, secrecy, and subtle strategy were its weapons of choice. For more than a century, the mystique and reputation of the "Great Men" who worked there allowed the firm to garner unimaginable profits, social cachet, and outsized influence in the halls of power. But in the mid-1980s, their titanic egos started getting in the way, and the Great Men of Lazard jeopardized all they had built. Author Cohan, himself a former high-level Wall Street banker, takes the reader into the mysterious and secretive world of Lazard and presents a compelling portrait of Wall Street in this tale of vaulting ambitions, whispered advice, worldly mistresses, fabulous art collections, and enormous wealth.--From publisher description.

Contents:

Chapter 1 "Great Men" 1

Chapter 2 "Tomorrow, the Lazard House Will Go Down" 17

Chapter 3 Original Sin 41

Chapter 4 "You Are Dealing with Greed and Power" 62

Chapter 5 Felix the Fixer 76

Chapter 6 The Savior of New York 134

Chapter 7 The Sun King 182

Chapter 8 Felix for President 218

Chapter 9 "The Cancer Is Greed" 242

Chapter 10 The Vicar 266

Chapter 11 The Boy Wonder 295

Chapter 12 The Franchise 320

Chapter 13 "Felix Loses It" 351

Chapter 14 "It's a White Man's World" 385

Chapter 15 The Heir Apparent 403

Chapter 16 "All the Responsibility but None of the Authority" 431

Chapter 17 "He Lit Up a Humongous Cigar and Puffed It in Our Faces for Half an Hour" 470

Chapter 18 "Lazard May Go Down Like the Titanic!" 494

Chapter 19 Bid-'Em-Up Bruce 540

Chapter 20 Civil War 573

Chapter 21 "The End of a Dynasty" 621.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [672]-714) and index.

ISBN:

0385514514

9780385514514

OCLC:

70877852