King Icahn: The Biography of a Renegade Capitalist
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Rating | : | 4.70 (865 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0525936130 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2016-12-04 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Great read, terrible editor Jeanna 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.. Honesty for Bezos said Bad Writing. Incredibly boring tale of a very interesting character.. Amazon Customer said Four Stars. A good read about a great career.
By the author of Sudden Death: The Rise and Fall of E.F. Recounts the life of legendary financier Carl Icahn, including his raid on Phillips Petroleum, his takeover of TWA, and more. Hutton. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo. Tour.
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. The other high-flyers--Ivan Boesky, T. Boone Pickens, Dennis Levine and Michael Milken--also appear here. 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