Books about Companies and Industries
Explore the best books about companies and industries, from gripping bank failures in House of Cards by William D. Cohan to the collapse in When Genius Failed. Essential reads for business history and finance insights.
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House of Cards
by William D. Cohan
In this superb and shocking narrative, Cohan chronicles the fall of Bear Stearns and the end of the Second Gilded Age on Wall Street. Cohan's minute-by-minute account of 10 days in March 2008, tells a chilling cautionary tale about greed, arrogance, and stupidity in the financial world, and the consequences for all of us.