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by: William D. Cohan List Price: $16.95 Amazon.com's Price: $11.53 You Save: $5.42 (32%) as of 07/30/2010 07:05 EDT Used Price: $4.98 Third Party New Price: $7.40 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 332.660973 EAN: 9780767930895 Edition: 1 Reprint ISBN: 0767930894 Label: Anchor Manufacturer: Anchor Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 608 Publication Date: February 09, 2010 Publisher: Anchor Release Date: February 09, 2010 Studio: Anchor Features: ISBN13: 9780767930895 Condition: New Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Related Items: The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, the Toughest Firm on Wall Street Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves Fool's Gold: The Inside Story of J.P. Morgan and How Wall St. Greed Corrupted Its Bold Dream and Created a Financial Catastrophe see more Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: A blistering narrative account of the negligence and greed that pushed all of Wall Street into chaos and the country into a financial crisis.   At the beginning of March 2008, the monetary fabric of Bear Stearns, one of the world’s oldest and largest investment banks, began unraveling. After ten days, the bank no longer existed, its assets sold under duress to rival JPMorgan Chase. The effects would be felt nationwide, as the country suddenly found itself in the grip of the worst financial mess since the Great Depression. William Cohan exposes the corporate arrogance, power struggles, and deadly combination of greed and inattention, which led to the collapse of not only Bear Stearns but the very foundations of Wall Street. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - WARNING: This book may cause uninhibited laughter! David Ellis Dickerson is a man of many talents. One of his talents is writing - evidently anything from greeting cards to memoirs. However, none of his talents seem transferable to the corporate world, as outlined in the hilarious and poignant memoir, //House of Cards//. At the age of twenty-six, the talented, witty, and literate Dickerson lands his "dream job," writing greeting cards for Hallmark. But it is soon apparent - from such indicators as receiving a disciplinary notice for ... Read More Rating: - Blatant error on page 1 dooms book for this reader Did you know that Wall Street is 2500 miles from Orlando Florida? Page 1 of this book tells us this. The real distance is more like 1080 miles. Why should this error matter for a financial book? Fact checking is important, and if the author, editors, and publishers can't find an error this blatant and basic 2 lines into the narration, something is critically wrong. Rating: - Wall Street will always be Wall Street I respectfully disagree with several other reviewers who said this book was clearly written. It's clear perhaps for investment bankers. I have an MBA from a top business school and I got lost in the numbers and just skimmed them. The only numbers that really stood out for me were the compensation ones. What does one do with $20 million annual salary? Even if the numbers weren't completely accurate, William Cohan gives the reader a good sense of the Wall Street culture and personalities. ... Read More Rating: - Very detailed review of the fall of Bear Sterns I think this book should have a disclaimer on the front that warns potential readers of its detail. I would not recommend this book for those who are not marginally familiar with investment banks and the way they make money. The book is written like an interesting term paper using interviews with key players and technical writing. As other reviewers have written, you will be reading with Wikipedia up on the computer and just glossing over certain sections that you do not understand. With that being said, ... Read More Rating: - Lots of information but not enough insight If you had asked me how I felt about House of Cards after I had read the first fifty pages I would have told you that the book is terrific. Cohan's very clear explaination of the beginnings of the Bear Stearns debacle are excellent. Few news sources recount precisely what caused the meltdown over mortgage-backed securities. The newspapers have been next to worthless. You hear about balloon mortgages, loose lending standards and a lot of confusing jargon and "trust" and "lack of faith," but never an explanation ... Read More see more