katzeball 's review for:

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough, John Helyar

4.0

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If you're at all interested in how investment banking and Wall Street make money by doing nothing of value to society, this is a great read. It's long, but the authors have done a good job of breaking things down and making the narrative suspenseful to the end, even with zero likable characters.

I just wish the latest edition came with an appendix on how to build a guillotine.