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Ugly Americans Ben Mezrich

Ugly Americans By Mezrich, Ben

Ugly Americans by Ben Mezrich


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Summary

Mezrich tells the true story of a hedge fund cowboy who raided Asia in search of the American Dream in a tale of money, risk and life lived close to the edge where failure meant not only bankruptcy and disgrace but potentially even death.

Ugly Americans Summary

Ugly Americans by Ben Mezrich

Following his New York Times bestseller, Bringing Down the House, Mezrich tells another extraordinary true story of money, risk and life lived close to the edge. John Malcolm is barely 30, a high school football hero and Princeton graduate, he controls a hedge fund worth $50m. In the '90's dozens of elite young American graduates made millions in hedge funds in the far East, beating the Japanese at their own game, riding the crashing waves of the Asian markets and winning. Failure meant not only bankruptcy and disgrace a la Nick Leeson, but potentially even death - at the hands of the Japanese YakuzaUgly Americans tells Malcolm's story, and that of others like him, in a cross between Mezrich's own Bringing Down the House and Michael Lewis' Liar's Poker.

About Ben Mezrich

Ben Mezrich is the author of four thrillers, published in the US and in a number of other countries

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GOR004247197
9780434012350
0434012351
Ugly Americans by Ben Mezrich
Used - Good
Paperback
Cornerstone
2004-07-01
288
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