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Barbarians at the Gate The Inside Story of America’s Most Notorious Corporate Takeover

Bryan Burrough

#1 A book that stormed both the bestseller list and the public imagination, a book that created a genre of its own, and a book that gets at the heart of 1980s Wall Street and the culture it helped define,

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The host recalled having read the book about the RJR Nabisco leveraged buyout, noting that it was turned into a movie, while discussing the scale of recent LBOs. No explicit endorsement was given, and the reference served mainly as a contextual illustration.

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The host recalled reading the book that was made into a movie about the RJR Nabisco leveraged buyout, identifying it as "Barbarians at the Gate."

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I don't think that being the largest makes any difference at all. Like, I can't remember the name of the book. But I read a book and they made a movie out of the RJR LBO, which I think... Barbarians at the gate.

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