Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
by: Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
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- Better than "Wall Street"
Definition of a page-turner, loved it.The authors got so much out of their interview subjects, the personal thoughts and dialog left you feeling like you were a part of these negotiations.They portrayed everyone even-handedly when it was probably tempting to make villains out of Ross Johnson or Henry Kravis.Extremely entertaining, a first class example of literary non-fiction.
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- Ladies And Gentlemen, The 1980s!!!
The mantra "Greed is good" was uttered by that 1980s paragon of Wall Street virtue, Gordon Gekko, yet it could just have easily been any one profiled in this mind-warping 1990 account of the leveraged buyout (LBO) of cigarette-and-cookie conglomerate RJR Nabisco, starting with RJR's chief executive, Ross Johnson.
Johnson was the one who first saw the benefits of taking RJR's undervalued stock private, boosting both his wealth and control. Small economies were not for him.
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Rating: - A Big Deal
Barbarians at the Gate is a classic of the business book genre, and with the private equity boom we have seen in the last couple of years, it is still as relevant as it was when it came twenty years ago. It is the story or some extremely unlikable rich people brought low by equally unsavory, but much smarter rich people, and it gives you an inside feel for the major wall street deal like no other book can.
Barbarians at the Gate is the story of an attempt to take RJR Nabisco private, ... Read More
Rating: - SOLID, ENJOYABLE READ
An enjoyable book which offers a good insight into the LBO business and the workings of Wall Street during the 1980s. There are some serious amounts of money involved and some very amusing characters - It almost reads like a comedy when detailing the exploits and excess of the chairman of RJR Nabisco with his fleet of company jets and "superstar" cronies.
Essentially, it reads like a thriller and although a little confusing (and perhaps too detailed on the history / background in parts), ... Read More
- Better than "Wall Street"Definition of a page-turner, loved it.The authors got so much out of their interview subjects, the personal thoughts and dialog left you feeling like you were a part of these negotiations.They portrayed everyone even-handedly when it was probably tempting to make villains out of Ross Johnson or Henry Kravis.Extremely entertaining, a first class example of literary non-fiction.
- Ladies And Gentlemen, The 1980s!!!The mantra "Greed is good" was uttered by that 1980s paragon of Wall Street virtue, Gordon Gekko, yet it could just have easily been any one profiled in this mind-warping 1990 account of the leveraged buyout (LBO) of cigarette-and-cookie conglomerate RJR Nabisco, starting with RJR's chief executive, Ross Johnson.
Johnson was the one who first saw the benefits of taking RJR's undervalued stock private, boosting both his wealth and control. Small economies were not for him.
Read More
- A Big DealBarbarians at the Gate is a classic of the business book genre, and with the private equity boom we have seen in the last couple of years, it is still as relevant as it was when it came twenty years ago. It is the story or some extremely unlikable rich people brought low by equally unsavory, but much smarter rich people, and it gives you an inside feel for the major wall street deal like no other book can.
Barbarians at the Gate is the story of an attempt to take RJR Nabisco private, ... Read More
- SOLID, ENJOYABLE READAn enjoyable book which offers a good insight into the LBO business and the workings of Wall Street during the 1980s. There are some serious amounts of money involved and some very amusing characters - It almost reads like a comedy when detailing the exploits and excess of the chairman of RJR Nabisco with his fleet of company jets and "superstar" cronies.
Essentially, it reads like a thriller and although a little confusing (and perhaps too detailed on the history / background in parts), ... Read More
