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The interviewee found this book about the fall of Bear Stearns fascinating, describing it as having "Shakespearean" qualities due to the characters' rise and fall from power.
he wrote this fascinating book about the fall of Bear Stearns that I read called House of Cards, a tale of hubris and wretched excess on Wall Street in 2009.
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Episode: William D. Cohan on Power, Ego, and the Imperial C...
The interviewee found this book about the fall of Bear Stearns fascinating, describing it as having "Shakespearean" qualities due to the characters' rise and fall from power.
he wrote this fascinating book about the fall of Bear Stearns that I read called House of Cards, a tale of hubris and wretched excess on Wall Street in 2009.
There's something very Shakespearean about these characters that get so big, so successful and then life kind of brings them back down to life like in the bear stern's book.