For more than a decade, Henry Kravis and George Roberts have been archetypes, first of Wall Street's boom years and then of its excesses. Their story and that of their firm - the biggest, most successful and most controversial participant in the age of leverage - illuminates an entire era of financial high jinks and speculative mania. Kravis and Roberts wrote their way into the history books by concocting one giant takeover after another. Their technique: the leveraged buyout, an audacious way to acquire a company with borrowed money, borrowed management - and a lot of nerve. Their firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., dominated the Wall Street scene in the late 1980s, acquiring one Fortune 500 company after another, including Safeway, Duracell, Motel 6, and RJR Nabisco. This book draws on more than 250 interviews, including recurring access to the central figures and their KKR associates, as well as confidential documents and private correspondence to couch giant financial issues in human terms. "Merchants of Debt" shows how pride, jealousy, fear, and ambition fuelled Wall Street's debt mania - with consequences that affected hundreds of thousands of people. The book addresses 3 questions - why did American business become so enchanted by debt in the 1980s? How exactly did Kravis and Roberts rise to the top of the heap? What have buyouts, especially KKR's deals, done to America's economic strength? In the tradition of "Barbarians at the Gate" and "The House of Morgan" this is a saga that takes readers behind closed boardroom doors to show how star-struck young bankers, ruthless deal-makers, and nervous CEOs changed one another's lives - and the whole American economy - over a 15 year span.

Merchants of Debt: KKR & the Mortgaging of American Business

Business & Money

Anders, George

Economics

Basic Books

In a tech-dominated world, the most needed degrees are the most surprising: the liberal arts. Did you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only reliable choice for finding a successful post-grad career. Our destinies have been reduced to a caricature: learn to write computer code or end up behind a counter, pouring coffee. Quietly, though, a different path to success has been taking shape. In You Can Do Anything, George Anders explains the remarkable power of a liberal arts education - and the ways it can open the door to thousands of cutting-edge jobs every week. The key insight: curiosity, creativity, and empathy aren't unruly traits that must be reined in. You can be yourself, as an English major, and thrive in sales. You can segue from anthropology into the booming new field of user research; from classics into management consulting, and from philosophy into high-stakes investing. At any stage of your career, you can bring a humanist's grace to our rapidly evolving high-tech future. And if you know how to attack the job market, your opportunities will be vast. In this book, you will learn why resume-writing is fading in importance and why "telling your story" is taking its place. You will learn how to create jobs that don't exist yet, and to translate your campus achievements into a new style of expression that will make employers' eyes light up. You will discover why people who start in eccentric first jobs - and then make their own luck - so often race ahead of peers whose post-college hunt focuses only on security and starting pay. You will be ready for anything.

You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education

Job Hunting & Careers

Little. Brown and Company

Back Bay Books

The HMO system is supposed to stop greedy doctors and hospitals from viewing patients as sources of profit. But Health Against Wealth reveals that when you are confronting a medical emergency, the HMO system's cost-saving rules can jeopardize your life. This book, said the Cleveland Plain Dealer, is a "chilling portrait of the many ways in which HMOs can be hazardous to your health."

Health Against Wealth

Insurance

Harvest

An examination of the health-care system posits the belief that HMO bureaucrats sacrifice care in order to keep costs down and discusses the experiences of many people who have been frustrated by the current health-care system. Tour.

Health Against Wealth: Hmos and the Breakdown of Medical Trust

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Merchants of Debt: Kkr and the Mortgaging of American Business

Offers a behind the scenes look at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &amp; Co., the leveraged buyout firm responsible for many of the biggest corporate takeovers of the 1980s, and examines the economic consequences of those takeovers

Merchants of Debt: KKR and the Mortgaging of American Business

A history of the biggest, most successful, and most controversial Wall Street firm discusses Henry Kravis and George Roberts's purchase of RJR Nabisco and how they dominated the Wall Street scene in the 1980s. 40,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.

Merchants Of Debt: Kkr And The Mortgaging Of American Business

Biography & History

Health Insurance spending restrictions known as managed care are sweeping through the U.S., often praised for cutting runaway medical costs. This book reveals how all those cost saving rules can turn against you, sometimes putting lives at risk.

Health Against Wealth: Hmos and the Breakdown of Medical Trust (G.K Hall Large Print Core Collection)

G.K.Hall & Co.

First published in 1992 (by Basic Books), this reprint is timely now in the wake of Enron and WorldCom. Anders tells the story of how Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) took advantage of Wall Street's tolerance of debt to finagle massive corporate takeovers of companies that included Safeway, Drexel, and

Beard Books Inc

Documents the struggle between the sons of Hewlett-Packard's founders and the company's powerful woman CEO to retain controlling interest over the company, describing the differences that set each side at opposition and tracing Fiorina's experiences behind the scenes. 40,000 first printing.

Perfect Enough: Carly Fiorina and the Reinvention of Hewlett Packard

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Portfolio Hardcover

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Merchants of Debt: KKR & the Mortgaging of American Business

You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education

You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education

Health Against Wealth

Health Against Wealth: Hmos and the Breakdown of Medical Trust

Merchants of Debt: KKR and the Mortgaging of American Business

Merchants Of Debt: Kkr And The Mortgaging Of American Business

Health Against Wealth: Hmos and the Breakdown of Medical Trust (G.K Hall Large Print Core Collection)

Merchants of Debt: Kkr and the Mortgaging of American Business

Perfect Enough: Carly Fiorina and the Reinvention of Hewlett Packard