Money and Power How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World

✍ Scribed by Cohan, William D

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 638 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780385534970

✦ Synopsis

From the bestselling, prize-winning author of HOUSE OF CARDS, a revelatory history of Goldman Sachs, the most dominant, controversial and feared investment bank in the world
Goldman Sachs has always projected an image of being better than its competitors. The firm--buttressed by an aggressive and sophisticated PR machine--often boasts of ''The Goldman Way,'' a business model predicated on hiring the most talented people, indoctrinating them in a corporate culture of ''the greater good,'' and honoring the 14 Principles, the first of which is ''Our clients' interests always come first.''

But there is another way of viewing Goldman -- a secretive money-making machine that has straddled the line between conflict-of-interest and legitimate deal-making for decades; a firm that has exerted undue influence over government since the early part of the 20th century; a workplace rife with brutal power struggles; a Wall Street titan whose clever bet against the...