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　　From the bestselling, prize-winning author of THE LAST TYCOONS

and HOUSE OF CARDS, a revelatory history of Goldman Sachs, the most

dominant, feared, and controversial investment bank in the

world

For much of its storied 142-year history, Goldman Sachs has

projected an image of being better than its competitors--smarter,

more collegial, more ethical, and far more profitable. The

firm--buttressed by the most aggressive and sophisticated p.r.

machine in the financial industry--often boasts of "The Goldman

Way," a business model predicated on hiring the most talented

people, indoctrinating them in a corporate culture where partners

stifle their egos for the greater good, and honoring the "14

Principles," the first of which is "Our clients' interests always

come first."

But there is another way of viewing Goldman--a secretive

money-making machine that has straddled the line between

conflict-of-interest and legitimate deal-making for decades; a firm

that has exerted undue influence over government since the early

part of the 20th century; a company composed of "cyborgs" who are

kept in line by an internal "reputational risk department" staffed

by former CIA operatives and private investigators; a workplace

rife with brutal power struggles; a Wall Street titan whose clever

bet against the mortgage market in 2007--a bet not revealed to its

clients--may have made the financial ruin of the Great Recession

worse.

As William D. Cohan shows in his riveting chronicle of Goldman's

rise to the summit of world capitalism, the firm has shown a

remarkable ability to weather financial crises, congressional,

federal and SEC investigations, and numerous lawsuits, all with its

reputation and its enormous profits intact. By reading thousands of

pages of government documents, court cases, SEC filings, Freedom of

Information Act papers and other sources, and conducting over 100

interviews, including interviews with clients, competitors,

regulators, current and former Goldman employees (including the six

living men who have run Goldman), Cohan has constructed a vivid

narrative that looks behind the veil of secrecy to reveal how

Goldman has become so profitable, and so powerful.

Part of the answer is the firm's assiduous cultivation of people

in power--dating back to 1913, when Henry Goldman advised the

government on how the new Federal Reserve, designed to oversee Wall

Street, should be constituted. Sidney Weinberg, who ran the firm

for four decades, advised presidents from Roosevelt to Kennedy and

was nicknamed "The Politician" for his behind-the-scenes

friendships with government officials. Goldman executives ran

fundraising efforts for Nixon, Reagan, Clinton and George W.

Bush. The firm showered lucrative consulting or speaking fees

on figures like Henry Kissinger and Lawrence Summers. Famously, and

fatefully, two Goldman leaders-- Robert Rubin and Henry

Paulson--became Secretaries of the Treasury, where their actions

both before and during the financial crisis of 2008 became the

stuff of controversy and conspiracy theories.

Another major strand in the firm's DNA is its eagerness to deal

on both sides of a transaction, eliding questions of conflict of

interest by the mere assertion of their innate honesty and

nobility, a refrain repeated many times in its history, most

notoriously by current Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein's jesting

assertion that he was doing "God's work."

As Michiko Kakutani's New York Times review of HOUSE OF CARDS

said, "Cohan writes with an insider's knowledge of the workings of

Wall Street, a reporter's investigative instincts and a natural

storyteller's narrative command." In MONEY & POWER, Cohan has

marshaled all these gifts in a powerful and definitive account of

an institution whose public claims of virtue look very much like

ruthlessness when exposed to the light of day.

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　　William D. Cohan is the author of the New York Times

bestsellers House of Cards and The Last

Tycoons, which won the 2007 FT/Goldman Sachs Business

Book of the Year Award.    He is a contributing

editor at Vanity Fair, has a bi-weekly opinion column in

The New York Times, and writes frequently for The

Financial Times, Fortune, The Atlantic, and the Washington

Post, among other publications. A former investment

banker, Cohan is a graduate of Duke University, Columbia

University School of Journalism and the Columbia University

Graduate School of Business.

　　From the Hardcover edition.

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　　"[A] definitve account of the most profitable and influential

investment bank of the modern era....recounts these events

capably.....[and explains] Goldman's cultivation of a reputation

for brilliance unique even in the rarefied precincts of Wall

Street.....gives readers the information they need to ponder

whether investment banking has moved in a constructive

direction."--The New York Times Book Review

书籍介绍

From the bestselling, prize-winning author of THE LAST TYCOONS and HOUSE OF CARDS, a revelatory history of Goldman Sachs, the most dominant, feared, and controversial investment bankin the world

For much of its storied 142-year history, Goldman Sachs has projected an image of being better than its competitors--smarter, more collegial, more ethical, and far more profitable. The firm--buttressed by the most aggressive and sophisticated p.r. machine in the financial industry--often boasts of "The Goldman Way," a business model predicated on hiring the most talented people, indoctrinating them in a corporate culture where partners stifle their egos for the greater good, and honoring the "14 Principles," the first of which is "Our clients' interests always come first."

But there is another way of viewing Goldman--a secretive money-making machine that has straddled the line between conflict-of-interest and legitimate deal-making for decades; a firm that has exerted undue influence over government since the early part of the 20th century; a company composed of "cyborgs" who are kept in line by an internal "reputational risk department" staffed by former CIA operatives and private investigators; a workplace rife with brutal power struggles; a Wall Street titan whose clever bet against the mortgage market in 2007--a bet not revealed to its clients--may have made the financial ruin of the Great Recessionworse.

As William D. Cohan shows in his riveting chronicle of Goldman's rise to the summit of world capitalism, the firm has shown a remarkable ability to weather financial crises, congressional, federal and SEC investigations, and numerous lawsuits, all with its reputation and its enormous profits intact.Byreading thousands of pages of government documents, court cases, SEC filings, Freedom of Information Actpapersand other sources, and conducting over 100 interviews, including interviews with clients, competitors, regulators, current and former Goldman employees (including thesixliving men who have run Goldman), Cohan has constructed a vivid narrative that looks behind the veil of secrecy to reveal how Goldman has become so profitable, and so powerful.

Part of the answer is the firm's assiduous cultivation of people in power--dating back to 1913, when Henry Goldman advised the government on how the new Federal Reserve, designed to oversee Wall Street, should be constituted.Sidney Weinberg, who ran the firm for four decades, advised presidents from Roosevelt to Kennedy and was nicknamed "The Politician" for his behind-the-scenes friendships with government officials. Goldman executives ran fundraising efforts for Nixon, Reagan, Clinton and George W. Bush. The firm showered lucrative consultingor speaking fees on figures like Henry Kissinger and Lawrence Summers. Famously, and fatefully, two Goldman leaders-- Robert Rubin and Henry Paulson--became Secretaries of the Treasury, where theiractions both before andduring the financial crisis of 2008became the stuff of controversy and conspiracy theories.

Another major strand in the firm's DNA is its eagerness to deal on both sides of a transaction, eliding questions of conflict of interest by the mere assertion of their innate honesty and nobility, a refrain repeated many times in its history, most notoriously by current Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein's jesting assertion that he was doing "God's work."

As Michiko Kakutani's New York Times review of HOUSE OF CARDS said, "Cohan writes with an insider's knowledge of the workings of Wall Street, a reporter's investigative instincts and a natural storyteller's narrative command." In MONEY & POWER, Cohan has marshaled all these gifts in a powerful and definitive account of an institution whose public claims of virtue look very much like ruthlessness when exposed to the light of day.

From the Hardcover edition.