{"product_id":"untitled-jun14_24-59","title":"House of Cards","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Last Tycoons\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, William D. Cohan's international bestseller \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHouse of Cards: How Wall Street's Gamblers Broke Capitalism \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003edissects the collapse of Bear Stearns and the beginning of the financial crisis. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was Wall Street's toughest investment bank, taking risks where others feared to tread, run by testosterone-fuelled gamblers who hung a sign saying 'let's make nothing but money' over the trading floor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet in March 2008 the 85-year-old firm Bear Stearns was brought to its knees - and global economic meltdown began. With unprecedented access to the people at the eye of the financial storm, William Cohan tells the outrageous story of how Wall Street's entire house of cards came crashing down. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A page-turner ... hard to put down, especially thanks to its dishy, often profane, quotes from insiders ... Read it, learn - and weep'\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eObserver\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A fly-on-the-wall record ... Cohan is a master of this genre. He perfectly captures the raw voice of Wall Street ... like Damon Runyon updated by Martin Scorsese' \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSpectator Business\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Action-packed ... gripping' \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A devastating account of the foul-mouthed, money-grabbing men responsible for Bear Stearns' collapse'\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBusiness Week\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWilliam D. Cohan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was an award-winning investigative journalist before embarking on a seventeen-year career as an investment banker on Wall Street. His first book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Last Tycoons\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, about Lazard, won the 2007 Financial Times\/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and was a New York Times bestseller. His second book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHouse of Cards\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, also a bestseller, is an account of the last days of Bear Stearns \u0026amp; Co.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Political Fiction","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45562416922836,"sku":"","price":49.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2431\/3812\/files\/EEEF0AFE-CDE2-4D9C-B58A-4F2A936F6E40.jpg?v=1718312790","url":"https:\/\/bluebooks.ae\/products\/untitled-jun14_24-59","provider":"Blue Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}