Bryan Burrough is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair magazine in New York. A former Wall Street Journal reporter,
he is the author of Dragonfly and Vendetta, as well as the coauthor of the number one New York Times bestseller
Barbarians at the Gate. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, Marla, and their two young sons.
Review
"A superlative book...steadily builds suspense until the very end."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"One of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the
1980s."
--New York Times Book Review
Submitted by Publisher, June, 2001
Summary
Barbarians at the Gate has been called one of the most influential business books of all time -- the definitive
account of the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's gripping account of the
frenzy that overtook Wall Street in October and November of 1988 is the story of deal makers and publicity flaks,
of strategy meetings and society dinners, of boardrooms and bedrooms -- giving us not only a detailed look at how
financial operations at the highest levels are conducted but also a richly textured social history of wealth at
the twilight of the Reagan era.
Barbarians at the Gate -- a business narrative classic -- is must reading for everyone interested in the way
today's world really works.
