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Liar's poker : rising through the wreckage on Wall Street by Michael M. Lewis is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Liar's Poker is a non-fiction, semi-autobiographical book by Michael Lewis describing the author's experiences as a bond salesman on Wall Street during the late 1980s. First published in 1989, it is considered one of the books that defined Wall Street during the 1980s. This bestselling and hilarious book blew the doors off Wall Street's boardrooms and introduced the world to the writing of Michael Lewis. In this shrewd and wickedly funny book, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through a powerful investment bank. From an unlikely beginning (art history at Princeton?) he rose in two short years from Salomon Brothers trainee to Geek (the lowest form of life on the trading floor) to Big Swinging Dick, the most dangerous beast in the jungle, a bond salesman who could turn over millions of dollars' worth of doubtful bonds with just one call. With the eye and ear of a born storyteller, Michael Lewis shows us how things really worked on Wall Street. In the Salomon training program a roomful of aspirants is stunned speechless by the vitriolic profanity of the Human Piranha; out on the trading floor, bond traders throw telephones at the heads of underling

Who reads Liar's poker : rising through the wreckage on Wall Street?

Author

Michael M. Lewis

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393338690

Category

history

Subjects

Economics, Fiction, Finance

Rating

4.16 / 5 (469 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13