num_pages: 364
description: For more than a decade, Henry Kravis and George Roberts have been archetypes, first of Wall Street's boom years and then of its excesses. Their story and that of their firm - the biggest, most successful and most controversial participant in the age of leverage - illuminates an entire era of financial high jinks and speculative mania.
language: English
title: Merchants of Debt: KKR and the Mortgaging of American Business
titlecomplete: Merchants of Debt: KKR and the Mortgaging of American Business
genres: Finance, History, Nonfiction, Business, Economics
ratings_count: 342
publisher: Beard Books