Tearing Down the Walls
Subtitle: How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to the Top of the Financial World. . .and Then Nearly Lost It All (Wall Street Journal Book)
Publisher: Free Press
Published: April 27, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780743247269
Subjects: Biography: general; Entrepreneurship; Business; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Current Events / General
First sentence: "At age twenty-two, when most young men are eagerly laying plans for their careers, Sandy Weill was facing failure."
Description: "Tells the inside story of how a Jewish boy from Brooklyn's back alleys overcame incredible odds and deep-seated prejudices to transform the financial-services industry as we know it today." "Using nearly five hundred firsthand interviews with key players in Weill's life and career - including Weill himself - Langley chronicles not only his success and scandals but also the shadows of his hidden self: his father's abandonment and his loving marriage; his tyrannical rages as well as his tearful regrets; his fierce sense of loyalty and his ruthless elimination of potential rivals. By highlighting in detail one man's life in a narrative as a novel, Tearing Down the Walls provides the historical context of the dramatic changes not only in business but also in American society in the last half century."--BOOK JACKET.