The Last Tycoons


The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. is the debut book by William D. Cohan. It was released on April 3, 2007 by Doubleday. It focuses on the history of the prominent investment bank Lazard Frères. The book won the 2007 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.

Author

William D. Cohan, as of 2013 an author of three New York Times best-selling books about Wall Street, is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, and a former award-winning investigative newspaper reporter based in Raleigh, North Carolina. He worked on Wall Street for seventeen years. He spent six years at Lazard Frères in New York, then Merrill Lynch, and later became a managing director at JP Morgan Chase.

Content

  1. Great Men
  2. Tomorrow, the Lazard House Will Go Down
  3. Original Sin
  4. You Are Dealing with Greed and Power
  5. Felix the Fixer
  6. The Savior of New York
  7. The Sun King
  8. Felix for President
  9. The Cancer is Greed
  10. The Vicar
  11. The Boy Wonder
  12. The Franchise
  13. Felix Loses It
  14. It's a White Man's World
  15. The Heir Apparent
  16. All the Responsibility but None of the Authority
  17. He Lit up a Humongous Cigar and Puffed it in our Faces for Half an Hour
  18. Lazard May Go Down Like the Titanic
  19. Bid-'em-up Bruce
  20. Civil War
  21. The End of a Dynasty

    Review

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