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  • Published: 12 June 2012
  • ISBN: 9780241954065
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 672
  • RRP: $37.99

Money and Power

How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World



William Cohan, chronicler of Wall Street, turns his sights on Goldman Sachs, one of the most iconic and successful banks in the world

'If they could screw you over, they totally would ...'

Goldman Sachs are the investment bank all other banks - and 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 and off the record. In an astonishing story of clashing egos, backstabbing, sex scandals, private investigators, court cases and government cabals, he reveals what really lies beneath their gold-plated image.

  • Published: 12 June 2012
  • ISBN: 9780241954065
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 672
  • RRP: $37.99

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Praise for Money and Power

Revelatory, engrossing, penetrating ... Cohan revels in a good bust-up

Financial Times

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 and hungry that it's no longer long-term greedy but short-term vicious. And that's the wonder - and horror - of Goldman Sachs

Businessweek

Cohan's book tells of bitter power struggles and business cock-ups

Guardian

A definitive account of the most profitable and influential investment bank of the modern era

New York Times Book Review