{"product_id":"9781504045025","title":"Eagle on the Street: The SEC and Wall Street during the Reagan Years","description":"\u003cb\u003eA “spellbinding account” of Wall Street deregulation in the 1980s, based on a Pulitzer Prize–winning \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003eseries (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Described by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eas “worthy of being on the same shelf” as \u003ci\u003eLiar’s Poker\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Greed and Glory on Wall Street\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBarbarians at the Gate\u003c\/i\u003e, this eye-opening business history explains how Washington and Wall Street cut the deals that led to a decade of greed.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e For the Securities and Exchange Commission, the 1980s brought sweeping changes. Under the sway of Reaganomics and the leadership of John Shad, the SEC came down hard on insider trading but introduced wide-ranging deregulation to the stock market, which helped to both fuel the legendary bull market and sow the seeds of the 1987 crash.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Shad, a former vice-chairman of the brokerage firm EF Hutton \u0026amp; Company and the first Wall Street executive to lead the SEC since Joseph Kennedy, was a true believer in the free market. His tenure touched all the big headlines and enduring images of this tumultuous decade, from leveraged buyouts to junk bonds, Manhattan skyscrapers to Senate hearing rooms, Michael Milken to T. Boone Pickens.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e David A. Vise and Steve Coll won the Pulitzer Prize for the original reporting in the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e that would become \u003ci\u003eEagle on the Street\u003c\/i\u003e. In an era when the costs, benefits, and risks of deregulation are under debate once again, their “engrossing account of the struggle for the soul of the SEC” is essential reading (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131380252912,"sku":"9781504045025","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504045025_p0.jpg?v=1769897776","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504045025","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}