Barbarians at the Gate: The Inside Story of America’s Most Notorious Corporate Takeover

Barbarians at the Gate: The Inside Story of America’s Most Notorious Corporate Takeover

<p class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">“One of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> and Wall Street in the 1980’s.”<br />—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">New York Times Book Review</i><br style="mso-special-character: line-break"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">A #1 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">New York Times </i>bestseller and arguably the <span style="COLOR: black">best business narrative ever written, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Barbarians at the Gate </i>is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco. An enduring masterpiece of investigative journalism by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar</span>, 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 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Los Angeles Times</i> calls <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: black">Barbarians at the Gate</span></i>, “Superlative.” The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Chicago Tribune</i> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>