Greed and Glory on Wall Street

Greed and Glory on Wall Street
Author: Ken Auletta
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1504018605

The inside account of a financial meltdown that reshaped Wall Street In 1983, Lew Glucksman, then co-CEO of the heralded investment bank Lehman Brothers, demanded the resignation of chairman Pete Peterson, with whom he had long argued over how to manage the company. Shockingly, Peterson, who had taken charge a decade earlier and led Lehman from near collapse to record profits, agreed to step down. In this meticulously researched volume, Ken Auletta details the turmoil, infighting, and power struggles that brought about Peterson’s departure and the eventual sale of one of Wall Street’s oldest and most prestigious firms. Set against the backdrop of the 1980s stock exchange, where hotshot young traders made and lost millions in a single afternoon, the story of Lehman’s fall is a suspenseful battle of wills between bankers, traders, and executives motivated by greed, envy, and ego. Auletta, who conducted hundreds of hours of interviews and was granted access to private company records, has crafted a thorough, enduring, and engaging account of pivotal events that continued to influence this storied financial institution until its ultimate demise in 2008.

Street Freak

Street Freak
Author: Jared Dillian
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2012-09-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1439181276

Erroneously states "1st Touchstone hardcover edition" in paperback copy.

The Big Book of Preserving the Harvest

The Big Book of Preserving the Harvest
Author: Carol W. Costenbader
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2012-05-25
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1603429174

Learn how to preserve a summer day — in batches — from this classic primer on drying, freezing, canning, and pickling techniques. Did you know that a cluttered garage works just as well as a root cellar for cool-drying? That even the experts use store-bought frozen juice concentrate from time to time? With more than 150 easy-to-follow recipes for jams, sauces, vinegars, chutneys, and more, you’ll enjoy a pantry stocked with the tastes of summer year-round.

Lots of Lehmans

Lots of Lehmans
Author: Kenneth Libo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Includes fifty-five descendants of Mayer Lehman - youngest of the three founding brothers of Lehman Brothers - who portray the German immigrant, his formidable wife Babette, and their seven colorful children.

Lehman's Terms

Lehman's Terms
Author: Leonard McClane
Publisher:
Total Pages: 664
Release: 2019-06-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781072495291

Stephie Jay was one of the most beloved reality television stars and social media influencers of the last decade, regarded as 'royalty' in the city of Newcastle Upon Tyne where she lived. Now she's dead from what everybody but her parents have accepted to be a tragic but inexplainable suicide. Jake Lehman is a private investigator trying to keep his head above the water line as the North East stumbles alongside the rest of the UK towards an economic collapse. Broken from a past that left him betrayed and scapegoated by his ex-police colleagues and a corrupt local government, Lehman is hired by Stephie's parents to investigate their daughter's death and prove it was not as it has been portrayed. To do that, Lehman's going to have to face down his past, his addictions and all the demons that come with both. Lehman's Terms is a journey down a dark path to the truth with an irreverent narrator who's too busy deconstructing the tale he's telling you to realise just how out of his depth he is. If you're a fan of Shane Black movies, 80s soft rock music and Elmore Leonard novels, this is for you! ------------------------------- Reviews for "Lehman's Terms": "If Shane Black wrote a Geordie private eye thriller for Ross Noble this would be it!" - Emily John. "An unconventional action thriller; purposefully meandering (in a good way) but when it kicks into gear its impossible to put down! It's dark, funny AND actually quite moving!" - Sarah Mitchell. "I, and hopefully a wider audience, found [McClane] quite enjoyable as a guide into the world of the P.I." - Thomas Ludlow. "An exciting, investigative, thrill-ride where lots of stuff gets smashed the f**k up!" - Rob Leatt. "If you like 80s action movies, s**t soft rock, comedic ramblings about pop culture (specifically the ending of The Fugitive) and an irreverent new spin on old private eye tropes, THIS is the book for you! This is DEFINITELY the book for you!" - James Grant. "★★★★★ ... by the time you get to the shocking reveal it is impossible to put down!" - Helen Grover. "It's assured in its style and sets that out from the start. I blasted through it for one reason: It's f**king good!" - Mark Flaherty. -------------------------------

Yeshiva Boys

Yeshiva Boys
Author: David Lehman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2009-11-17
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1439156263

David Lehman, a poet of wit, ingenuity, and formidable skill, draws upon his heritage as a grandson of Holocaust victims and offers a stirring autobiographical collection of poems that is his most ambitious work to date. Yeshiva Boys covers an expansive range of subjects -- from love, sex, and romance to repentance, humility, the meaning of democracy, Existentialism, modern European history, military intelligence, and the rituals associated with faith and prayer. The title poem is a work in twelve parts that blends the elements of espionage fiction, memory, history, and moral philosophy. It reflects David's experience as a student in an orthodox Yeshiva, and it, along with many other poems in the book, explores what it means to be a Jew in America, what is gained and lost in assimilating to secular culture, how to understand the peculiar destiny of the Jewish people, and how to reconcile the existence of God with the knowledge of evil. Beautiful, provocative, and accessible, this is David Lehman's most inspired collection.

Finders Takers

Finders Takers
Author: Lehman
Publisher: Brian Lehman
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2021-05-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781736978931

In this suspenseful crime thriller, three friends manage to carry out what one of them describes decades later as "the greatest kid crime ever committed." But that's not their only secret. Who murdered the neighborhood mobster? David, Mary Kay and her twin brother Tommy spend their lives hiding an improbable act of deception from their youth and how they became fabulously wealthy. Decades pass and the burden of guarding their secret and who they are takes a toll leading to paranoia, reckless behavior, obsession and more secrets. A childhood acquaintance suddenly understands the significance of what he knows and what the three must have done. His investigation tips off the very people they have been hiding from all along. What follows is revenge, death, a "deal with the devil," and the revelation of stunning, unforeseen madness. Everybody starts out as a kid, but they all grow up someday, and some sins can't be forgiven. Love? Murder? Greed? Insanity? Yeah, it's in there.

The Fed and Lehman Brothers

The Fed and Lehman Brothers
Author: Laurence M. Ball
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2018-06-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108420966

This book sets the record straight on why the Federal Reserve failed to rescue Lehman Brothers during the financial crisis.

Rainstorm

Rainstorm
Author: Barbara Lehman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2007-04-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0547349122

It can be lonely sometimes on a rainy day in a big house with no one else around and there’s only the quiet to keep you company. But if you find a key, a mysterious key, that leads you to an unexpected place . . . chances are your afternoon is about to get a lot more interesting.

Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them

Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them
Author: Rolfe Cobleigh
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2013-06-28
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1627932135

A wonderful book for anyone interested in starting their own homestead or small farm. This book will show you how to be self reliant and build the things you'll need. There are more than 200 illustrations showing you how to make handy farm devices. You'll learn about the farmer's workshop and tools, running a grindstone, making a dumb waiter, making a cradle, how to clean a well, how to stake out stock, bee keeping, how to transplant trees, how to build a bridge for a small stream, how to keep a gate from sagging, important points in house building, how to build small greenhouses, advice on the best way to split wood, black smithing, and much, much more in this thrift-conscious and environmentally wise book.