Originally published in , Liar’s Poker is a nonfiction book that details author Michael Lewis’s experiences as a Wall Street bonds salesman in the late s. Liar’s Poker is a betting game played with single dollar bills. In the book, bond traders at Salomon Brothers, an investment bank, play a much bigger betting game involving hundreds of millions of dollars, but the skills they require—daring, quick . · Funny, frightening, breathless and heartless, Liar's Poker is a now fabled story of hysterical greed and excessive ambition, one that is now more potent and enthralling than ever. The original classic that revealed the truth about ambition, greed and excess in London and Wall Street, by the author of the number one bestsellers The Big Short and Flash Boys.3/5(1). About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators.
Liar's Poker, by Michael Lewis. Michael Lewis said that he wrote Liar's Poker so that fewer idealistic college kids would dream of working on Wall Street. That is not to be believed. He makes Wall Street seem far too glamourous. He could have filled the book with the miseries of working at your desk for 16 hours a week. 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. Liar's Poker. I first encountered Michael Lewis through Moneyball, his excellent book on statistics-driven baseball management. It's a great book and an exception to my general dislike of sports books, but it also left me mentally filing Lewis into the sports writer category and not that likely to write other books I wanted to read. But then I.
Funny, frightening, breathless and heartless, Liar's Poker is a now fabled story of hysterical greed and excessive ambition, one that is now more potent and enthralling than ever. The original classic that revealed the truth about ambition, greed and excess in London and Wall Street, by the author of the number one bestsellers The Big Short and Flash Boys. Liar's Poker: Directed by Jeff Santo. With Richard Tyson, Jimmy Blondell, Flea, Caesar Luisi. Based on the book by Michael Lewis, describes the author's experiences as a salesman in Wall Street during the 80's. 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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