King Icahn: The Biography of a Renegade Capitalist
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (544 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0525936130 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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35,000 first printing. Tour.. By the author of Sudden Death: The Rise and Fall of E.F. Hutton. $35,000 ad/promo. Recounts the life of legendary financier Carl Icahn, including his raid on Phillips Petroleum, his takeover of TWA, and more
Jeanna said Great read, terrible editor. While the book is well written and an excellent read it is littered with grammatical errors. Very unclear why I paid so much money for a book that never had spell check run on it. I advise to find a different edition of the book.. Bad Writing Incredibly boring tale of a very interesting character.. "Four Stars" according to Amazon Customer. A good read about a great career.
Hutton ) dramatizes Icahn's financial gambles and acerbic treatment of top management figures, whom he often accuses of poor and despotic performance to the detriment of stockholders. In this unauthorized biography, based on research and on "virtually unlimited access" to the financier, Icahn emerges as a crafty but apparently straight player, to whom millions of dollars poured in yearly, until the U.S. Like a taut novel, this page turner grips the reader as Stevens ( Sudden Death: E. F. Boone Pickens, Dennis Levine and Michael Milken--also appear here. Congress called a halt to junk-bond-financed leveraged buyouts in 1991. The other high-flyers--Ivan Boesky, T. . Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly "One of the greatest things I did for the human race," Carl Icahn has said, "was not to become a doctor." Instead, this Princeton graduate from Q