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• catalog abstract "For more than a decade, Henry Kravis and George Roberts have been archetypes, first of Wall Street's boom years and then of its excesses. Their story and that of their firm--the biggest, most successful, and most controversial participant in the age of leverage--illuminates an entire era of financial maneuvering and speculative mania. Kravis and Roberts wrote their way into the history books by concocting one giant takeover after another. Their technique: the leveraged buyout, an audacious way to acquire a company with borrowed money, borrowed management--and a lot of nerve. Their firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., dominated the Wall Street scene in the late 1980s, acquiring one Fortune 500 company after another, including Safeway, Duracell, Motel 6, and RJR Nabisco. Merchants of Debt draws on more than 200 interviews, including recurring access to the central figures and their KKR associates, as well as court documents and private correspondence to couch giant financial issues in human terms. The story of KKR shows how pride, jealousy, fear, and ambition fueled Wall Street's debt mania--with consequences that affected hundreds of thousands of people. Anders addresses three questions: Why did American business become so enchanted by debt in the 1980s? How exactly did Kravis and Roberts rise to the top of the heap? What have buyouts, especially KKR's deals, done to America's economic strength? Here is a gripping saga that takes readers behind closed boardroom doors to show how star-struck young bankers, ruthless deal-makers, and nervous CEOs changed one another's lives--and the whole American economy--over a fifteen-year span.".
• catalog contributor b3684565.
• catalog created "c1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "c1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
• catalog description "1. Courting CEOs -- 2. The Growing Allure of Debt -- 3. In Pursuit of Profits -- 4. How to Talk to Banks -- 5. The Enchanting World of Drexel -- 6. The Takeover Minstrels -- 7. The Mentor's Fall -- 8. Ruling an Industrial Empire -- 9. The Discipline of Debt -- 10. Cashing Out -- 11. "We Don't Have Any Friends" -- 12. Credit Crunch -- 13. Fear, Humbling, and Survival -- 14. Debt Is Out, Equity Is In -- Appendix: KKR's Buyouts.".
• catalog description "Business Week Best Business Books".
• catalog description "For more than a decade, Henry Kravis and George Roberts have been archetypes, first of Wall Street's boom years and then of its excesses. Their story and that of their firm--the biggest, most successful, and most controversial participant in the age of leverage--illuminates an entire era of financial maneuvering and speculative mania. Kravis and Roberts wrote their way into the history books by concocting one giant takeover after another. Their technique: the leveraged buyout, an audacious way to acquire a company with borrowed money, borrowed management--and a lot of nerve. Their firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., dominated the Wall Street scene in the late 1980s, acquiring one Fortune 500 company after another, including Safeway, Duracell, Motel 6, and RJR Nabisco. Merchants of Debt draws on more than 200 interviews, including recurring access to the central figures and their KKR associates, as well as court documents and private correspondence to couch giant financial issues in human terms. The story of KKR shows how pride, jealousy, fear, and ambition fueled Wall Street's debt mania--with consequences that affected hundreds of thousands of people. Anders addresses three questions: Why did American business become so enchanted by debt in the 1980s? How exactly did Kravis and Roberts rise to the top of the heap? What have buyouts, especially KKR's deals, done to America's economic strength? Here is a gripping saga that takes readers behind closed boardroom doors to show how star-struck young bankers, ruthless deal-makers, and nervous CEOs changed one another's lives--and the whole American economy--over a fifteen-year span.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-317) and index.".
• catalog description "New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year".
• catalog extent "xx, 328 p., [8] p. of plates :".
• catalog hasFormat "Merchants of debt.".
• catalog identifier "0465045227 :".
• catalog isFormatOf "Merchants of debt.".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "c1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York, NY : BasicBooks,".
• catalog relation "Merchants of debt.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "332.1/78 20".
• catalog subject "Consolidation and merger of corporations United States Finance.".
• catalog subject "HG4028.M4 A56 1992".
• catalog subject "Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. History.".
• catalog subject "Leveraged buyouts United States.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Courting CEOs -- 2. The Growing Allure of Debt -- 3. In Pursuit of Profits -- 4. How to Talk to Banks -- 5. The Enchanting World of Drexel -- 6. The Takeover Minstrels -- 7. The Mentor's Fall -- 8. Ruling an Industrial Empire -- 9. The Discipline of Debt -- 10. Cashing Out -- 11. "We Don't Have Any Friends" -- 12. Credit Crunch -- 13. Fear, Humbling, and Survival -- 14. Debt Is Out, Equity Is In -- Appendix: KKR's Buyouts.".
• catalog title "Merchants of debt : KKR and the mortgaging of American business / George Anders.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".