William D. Cohan's Money & Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World" is a chronicle of the most successful iconic bank on Wall Street from the firm's founding in 1869 to the present day. Goldman Sachs are the investment bank all other banks
- & most businesses
- want to emulate; the firm with the best talent the best clients the best strategy. But is their success just down to the gilded magic of the ' Goldman way'? William D. Cohan has gained unprecedented access to Goldman's inner circle
- both on & off the record. In an astonishing story of clashing egos backstabbing sex scandals private investigators court cases & government cabals he reveals what really lies beneath their gold-plated image. " The best analysis yet of Goldman's increasingly tangled web of conflicts". (" Economist"). " Startling.. .lifts the lid on Goldman's pivotal role in the meltdown". (" Mail on Sunday"). " Cohan portrays a firm that has grown so large & hungry that it's no longer long-term greedy but short-term vicious. & that's the wonder
- & horror
- of Goldman Sachs". (" Businessweek"). " Cohan's book tells of bitter power struggles & business cock-ups". (" Guardian"). "A definitive account of the most profitable & influential investment bank of the modern era". (" The New York Times Book Review"). William D. Cohan was an award-winning investigative journalist before embarking on a seventeen-year career as an investment banker on Wall Street. His first book " The Last Tycoons about Lazard" won the 2007 " Financial Times"/ Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award & was a " New York Times" bestseller. His second book " House of Cards" also a bestseller is an account of the last days of Bear Stearns & Co."