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Original Title:	Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
ISBN:	0060536357 (ISBN13: 9780060536350)
Edition Language:	English

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

Bryan Burrough

Paperback | Pages: 592 pages

Rating: 4.25 | 28294 Users | 739 Reviews

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Title	:	Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Author	:	Bryan Burrough
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 592 pages
Published	:	December 13th 2005 by HarperBus (first published January 1st 1990)
Categories	:	Business. Nonfiction. Economics. Finance. History

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A #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco. An enduring masterpiece of investigative journalism by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, it includes a new afterword by the authors that brings this remarkable story of greed and double-dealings up to date twenty years after the famed deal. The Los Angeles Times calls Barbarians at the Gate, “Superlative.” The Chicago Tribune raves, “It’s hard to imagine a better story...and it’s hard to imagine a better account.” And in an era of spectacular business crashes and federal bailouts, it still stands as a valuable cautionary tale that must be heeded.

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"'we were charging right through the rice paddies, not stopping for anything and taking no prisoners.'"This was FUN! So much so that I went and bought loads of non-fic/faction about Wall Street. What is it with me and the 80s? If I'm not reading about AIDS, I'm reading about Gordon Gekkos.Anyway, everyone in this is just a monster. And whilst "Barbarians at the Gate" is a doozy title, it's total crap. They're all barbarians. It should be called "A Shitstorm of Evil Bastards".

"You can't make this stuff up."An absolutely riveting read, chronicling the RJR LBO story from the 80s. The authors have done a really good job at making this eminently readable and accessible, and one doesn't need beyond a basic knowledge of financial instruments to understand most of the things. And the volume of the book only speaks to the sheer journalistic effort they have put into this, while at the same time not allowing it to become boring at any point. It took me a while to get through

Read this one again. It's worth reading more than once. Still five stars. Even better after reading Benjamin Barber's "Consumed."It's probably because I don't get around much, but I've only seen one depiction of greed that I thought was funny, and that's the one from The Addams Family, in which Gomez Addams shows the impostor Fester how to get to the money vault by pulling on the book titled "Greed" on the bookshelf.Then there's the other kind of greed, the greed that is just nasty, heartless,

If you ever thought non-fiction cannot be as exciting as fiction, this is the book to prove you wrong. An absolute page-turner to beat any thriller. I literally powered through the last half of the book over a couple of days work or no work. As the epilogue says the raw material for the story was quite crazy and incredible in itself, but the ability of the authors to recreate for us the scenes of not just the few weeks in late 1989 but months and years preceding that is amazing (and god knows

When you run out of Eichenwald books to read, most algorithms point you here. For much of this book, that's an apt recommendation. It's a large, well-sourced, tomb that is a dense tick-tock of a specific corporate situation. The difference, is that Eichenwald tends to exam corporate malfeasance and the ne'er-do-wells getting their comeuppance. Here, well, Ross Johnson & crew to some degree are rewarded (though their malfeasance is not great as Eichenwald's subjects - maybe just their greed).

Listened to the abridged audio version. Good summary. Didnt care for the narrators.

Read this in 1991 just after it first came out. I couldn't put it down. If you don't understand the financial pages of newspapers and the terms they use, this is an easy way to learn about acquisitions, hostile takeovers, liquidity, assets, etc. Perhaps a bit dated now, but the author (a financial journalist) describes what happened here in the States in the 80's, a time when small businesses (and huge ones like RJR Reynolds) were bought out, sometimes just for the land they were built upon. The