King of the club : Richard Grasso and the survival of the New York Stock Exchange / Charles Gasparino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gasparino, Charles.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grasso, Richard.

New York Stock Exchange--Officials and employees--Biography.

New York Stock Exchange.

Corporations--Corrupt practices--United States--Case studies.

Corporations.

Corporations--Corrupt practices.

United States.

Genre:

Case studies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 383 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Collins, [2007]

Summary:

In King of the Club, acclaimed reporter Charles Gasparino, of The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and CNBC, takes us inside the marble-cloaked temple of finance that is the New York Stock Exchange-known to insiders as "The Club"-and reveals never-before-told details of the rise and fall of Richard Grasso, the most powerful CEO in the Exchange's 215-year history. Gasparino shows us: Grasso's desperate race to restart the nation's financial system after 9/11-and how the industry's backstabbing and race to make a buck didn't stop ... even then, The rise and fall of a remarkable Italian kid from the outer boroughs, who fought his way to the top of one of the country's most conservative and chubby institutions, A behind-the-scenes look at the struggle for control over the most central organization in global finance.

Contents:

It's good to be king

The Earl of sandwich

"The empty suit"

The little guy in the dark suit

Sugar daddy

The savior

The last hurrah

Star fucker or savior?

The uprising begins

One bad day

With friends like these

Enter the enforcer

The Goldman Sachs Exchange

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-354) and index.

ISBN:

9780060898335

006089833X

OCLC:

150372202