{"product_id":"2940169065725","title":"Liar's Poker : Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street (Abridged)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt was wonderful to be young and working on Wall Street in the 1980s: never had so many twenty-four-year-olds made so much money in so little time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this shrewd and wickedly funny audiobook, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through a powerful investment bank. From an unlikely beginning (art history at Princeton?) he rose in two short years from Salomon Brothers trainee to Geek (the lowest form of life on the trading floor) to Big Swinging Dick-a bond salesman who could turn over millions of dollars' worth of doubtful bonds with just one call.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA born storyteller, Michael Lewis shows us how things \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c\/i\u003e worked on Wall Street. The bond traders, wearing greed and ambition as badges of honor, might well have swaggered straight from the pages of \u003ci\u003eBonfire of the Vanities\u003c\/i\u003e. But for all their outrageous behavior, they were in fact presiding over enormous changes in the world economy. Lewis's job was to transfer money, in the form of bonds, from those outside American who saved to those inside America who consumed. In doing so, he generated tens of millions of dollars for Salomon Brothers, and earned for himself a ringside seat on the greatest financial spectacle of the decade: the leveraging of America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47097704186096,"sku":"2940169065725","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169065725_p0.jpg?v=1763670905","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169065725","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}