Ugly Americans
The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · April 26, 2005
Ben Mezrich, author of the New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House, returns with an astonishing story of Ivy League hedge-fund cowboys, high stakes, and the Asian underworld.
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- Who it’s for
- A real-life tale of hedge-fund risk and excess, told with the velocity of a financial thriller.
- Themes
- High-stakes finance, Risk and excess, Asian underworld
- Pacing
- Fast
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Ben Mezrich, author of the New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House, returns with an astonishing story of Ivy League hedge-fund cowboys, high stakes, and the Asian underworld. John Malcolm was the ultimate gunslinger in the Wild East, prepared to take on any level of risk in making mind-boggling sums of money.
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He and his friends were hedge-fund cowboys, living life on the adrenaline-, sex-, and drugs-fueled edge—kids running billion-dollar portfolios, trading information in the back rooms of high-class brothels and at VIP tables in nightclubs across the Far East. Malcolm and his Ivy League-schooled twenty-something colleagues, with their warped sense of morality, created their own economic theory that would culminate in a single deal the likes of which had never been seen before—or since. Ugly Americans is a story of extremes, charged with wealth, nerve, excess, and glamour. A real-life mixture of Liar's Poker and Wall Street, brimming with intense action, romance, underground sex, vivid locales, and exotic characters, Ugly Americans is the untold true story that rocked the financial community.
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A real-life tale of hedge-fund risk and excess, told with the velocity of a financial thriller.
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- Billion-dollar portfolios and nerve-rattling bets
- A glimpse of finance at its most flamboyant
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- A sustained narrative of wealth, glamour, and risk
- An account of Ivy League traders operating across Asian markets
Where it sits
| Business Lives | 42% |
|---|---|
| Finance | 28% |
| White-Collar Crime | 28% |
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Publisher categories
- Finance
- Financial Risk Management
- Wealth Management
- Investment & Trading Strategies
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- Management
- Business Motivation
- Investing (Personal)
- Managing Your Money
- Authors
- Ben Mezrich
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- April 26, 2005
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- High-stakes finance · Risk and excess · Asian underworld
- Reading lane
- Finance