Product Description

With a stake of $25 billion, the battle for control of Nabisco during October and November of 1988 was ruthless. This is an account of the largest corporate takeover bid in American history, and the results of a Wall Street gamble which are still affecting the world of international business.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #189715 in Books
• Published on: 1991-01-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 650 pages

Review
'The most bizarre financial mock-epic of our age. Read it open-mouthed; wonder and shudder.' Independent"

About the Author
Bryan Burrough is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in New York. In 1987 he won the John Hancock Award for Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism. John Helyar worked for the Wall Street Journal for nine years. He is now a senior editor of Southpoint, a business magazine based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Customer Reviews

You get what you pay for
I didn't realise this when I bought it, though the price should have told me, but this is a ruthlessly abridged version which leaves out everything of interest and misses out any hint of detailed explanation. The result is like a children's fairy tale only less imaginative. I'm sure the original is fine because of the subject matter, but here the subject matter has been castrated. Buy a more expensive version.

Classic book
This is an excellent book, well written, easy to follow (even though the first time I read it I wasn't working in finance)and best of all - true. It gives a great insight into the human factors that go into a deal, the section dealing with arguments over which bank gets its name written at the top on the tombstone for the deal is marvellous and not the sort of thing you learn as a student. I agree with the reviewer below who says that this book should be read in addition to the standard corporate finance texts. Great stuff.

Very readable,thriller-like story of corp. takeovers of 80s
Excellent inside look into corporate America and Wall Street takeovers frenzy in the 80s. Book is written in a very readable manner that does not require any deep knowledge of economics or financial theories. Reader is led to astonishing discovery of how the power of networking and personal egos control the world of business and finances. It reveals the tremendous power and opportunities that the CEO of the big corporation is given, and leads to understanding of who the real "players" are.