Merchants of Debt (Record no. 1912)
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| fixed length control field | 02109nam a2200193 4500 |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 91058601 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780465045228 |
| 024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 25201094 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | HG4028.M4 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 338.830973 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | George Anders |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Merchants of Debt |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Basic Books |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 328 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | For more than a decade, Henry Kravis and George Roberts have been archetypes, first of Wall Street's boom years and then of its excesses. Their story and that of their firm - the biggest, most successful and most controversial participant in the age of leverage - illuminates an entire era of financial high jinks and speculative mania. Kravis and Roberts wrote their way into the history books by concocting one giant takeover after another. Their technique: the leveraged buyout, an audacious way to acquire a company with borrowed money, borrowed management - and a lot of nerve. Their firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., dominated the Wall Street scene in the late 1980s, acquiring one Fortune 500 company after another, including Safeway, Duracell, Motel 6, and RJR Nabisco. This book draws on more than 250 interviews, including recurring access to the central figures and their KKR associates, as well as confidential documents and private correspondence to couch giant financial issues in human terms. "Merchants of Debt" shows how pride, jealousy, fear, and ambition fuelled Wall Street's debt mania - with consequences that affected hundreds of thousands of people. The book addresses 3 questions - why did American business become so enchanted by debt in the 1980s? How exactly did Kravis and Roberts rise to the top of the heap? What have buyouts, especially KKR's deals, done to America's economic strength? In the tradition of "Barbarians at the Gate" and "The House of Morgan" this is a saga that takes readers behind closed boardroom doors to show how star-struck young bankers, ruthless deal-makers, and nervous CEOs changed one another's lives - and the whole American economy - over a 15 year span. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Economics |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Business |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 07/17/2024 | 332.1 ANDE | 58640 | 07/17/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |