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5 days ago · One of her early Wall Street deals included working on the 1995 acquisition of food conglomerate Borden by the company now known as KKR. The private equity giant bought Borden through shares of RJR Nabisco, the company at the centre of Bryan Burrough and John Helyar’s 1989 book Barbarians at the Gate.
3 days ago · Best-selling author Bryan Burrough returns to his small-town Texas roots in the podcast, by Texas Monthly, called “Stephenville.” This season he explores a murder case that went cold for nearly two decades. To tell this amazing story, Bryan is armed with the newly discovered diary of the killer himself.
3 days ago · Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco (New York: HarperCollins, 1990), 139. 36. Robert A. Lynn, “Installment Credit before 1870,” Business History Review 31, no. 4 (Winter 1957): 415; and Foulke, Sinews of American Commerce , 182.
1 day ago · Bryan Burrough and John Helyar documented the events in more than two dozen Journal articles. Burrough and Helyar later used these articles as the basis of a bestselling book, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, which was turned into a film for HBO. 1988: Insider trading
4 days ago · Announcing Our New Podcast, ‘The Problem With Erik’. The latest true crime series from Texas Monthly tells the story of a murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by an executive at one of Austin's ...
3 days ago · Anyone who doubts the existence of conspiracies should read about the smearing of banker Edmond Safra by American Express is retold in Vendetta (1992) by Bryan Burrough, who had co-authored Barbarians at the Gate on the takeover and trashing of Nabisco.
4 days ago · Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough; John Helyar. ISBN: 9780061655548. Publication Date: 2008-10-28. An enduring masterpiece of investigative journalism, it still stands as a valuable cautionary tale that must be heeded. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. ISBN: 9780374275631. Publication Date: 2011-10-25.
