Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco.
"Turn over the reins to the board of directors": First Edition of Barbarians At The Gate; Signed by Co-Author John Helyar and Actor Fred Thompson
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco.
BURROUGH, Bryan and Helyar.
Item Number: 130849
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1990.
First edition, early printing of this business classic. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed Bryan Burrough on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket, small name. Jacket design by Neil Stuart.
The ultimate story of greed and glory, Barbarians at the Gate is the gripping account of these two frenzied months, of deal makers and publicity flaks, of an old-line industrial powerhouse that became the victim of the ruthless and rapacious style of finance in the 1980s. "It’s hard to imagine a better story and it’s hard to imagine a better account" (Chicago Tribune). Made into the film directed by Glenn Jordan and written by Larry Gelbart, starring James Garner as F. Ross Johnson, the CEO of RJR Nabisco, Jonathan Pryce as Henry Kravis, his chief rival for the company and Fred Thompson as James Robinson III, the CEO of American Express.
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