The Last Tycoons

<p><B>William D. Cohan's <I>The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.</I> is the astonishing story of the world's most elite and legendary investment bank - and the men who reigned over it all.</B><br><br> For over 150 years Lazard Frères had stood apart from other Wall Street firms by offering ultra-wealthy clients the wisdom of its 'Great Men': from Felix Rohatyn, the escapee from Nazi-occupied France turned financial genius, to Michel David-Weill, the inscrutable French billionaire 'Sun King'; from Steve Rattner, the boy wonder from Long Island who clashed violently with the old guard, to larger-than-life CEO Bruce Wasserstein, 'Bid-Em-Up-Bruce', who broke with the bank's traditions and made himself billions in the process. They amassed unimaginable fortunes and would stop at nothing to make a deal, until their titanic egos started to jeopardize everything.<br><br> In <I>The Last Tycoons </I>William Cohan, himself a former high-level Wall Street banker, takes us into their mysterious and secretive world, telling a story of ruthless ambition, whispered advice, explosive feuds, glamorous mistresses, decadent excesses and unimaginable wealth.<br><br> 'Spellbinding'<br />  <I>Financial Times</I><br><br> 'A definitive account ... it lives up to the billing'<br />  <I>The Times</I><br><br> 'Has sent a jolt through Lazard and the rest of Wall Street'<br />  <I>Wall Street Journal</I><br><br> <B>William D. Cohan</B> was an award-winning investigative journalist before embarking on a seventeen-year career as an investment banker on Wall Street. His first book, <I>The Last Tycoons</I>, 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, <I>House of Cards</I>, also a bestseller, is an account of the last days of Bear Stearns & Co. He is also the author of Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World</I>.</p> <p><B>William D. Cohan's <I>The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.</I> is the astonishing story of the world's most elite and legendary investment bank - and the men who reigned over it all.</B><br><br> For over 150 years Lazard Frères had stood apart from other Wall Street firms by offering ultra-wealthy clients the wisdom of its 'Great Men': from Felix Rohatyn, the escapee from Nazi-occupied France turned financial genius, to Michel David-Weill, the inscrutable French billionaire 'Sun King'; from Steve Rattner, the boy wonder from Long Island who clashed violently with the old guard, to larger-than-life CEO Bruce Wasserstein, 'Bid-Em-Up-Bruce', who broke with the bank's traditions and made himself billions in the process. They amassed unimaginable fortunes and would stop at nothing to make a deal, until their titanic egos started to jeopardize everything.<br><br> In <I>The Last Tycoons </I>William Cohan, himself a former high-level Wall Street banker, takes us into their mysterious and secretive world, telling a story of ruthless ambition, whispered advice, explosive feuds, glamorous mistresses, decadent excesses and unimaginable wealth.<br><br> 'Spellbinding'<br />  <I>Financial Times</I><br><br> 'A definitive account ... it lives up to the billing'<br />  <I>The Times</I><br><br> 'Has sent a jolt through Lazard and the rest of Wall Street'<br />  <I>Wall Street Journal</I><br><br> <B>William D. Cohan</B> was an award-winning investigative journalist before embarking on a seventeen-year career as an investment banker on Wall Street. His first book, <I>The Last Tycoons</I>, 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, <I>House of Cards</I>, also a bestseller, is an account of the last days of Bear Stearns & Co. He is also the author of Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World</I>.</p>