Bryan Burrough: Barbarians At The Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco [2010] paperback Condition:New and idiosyncrasies as the city

and idiosyncrasies as the city itself

By the time he died

This is the story of a land neither green nor pleasant

President Barack Obama's summer reading choice

Bryan Burrough: Barbarians At The Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco [2010] paperback Condition:New and idiosyncrasies as the cityThe battle for the control of RJR Nabisco in the Autumn of 1988, which became the largest and most dramatic corporate takeover in American history, sent shock waves through the international business world and became a symbol of the greed, excess and egotism of the eighties. Barbarians at the Gate recounts this two month battle with breathtaking pace and flair, and transports back to the Wall Street empire before it crumbled, through the boardroom