House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street »

WILLIAM D. COHAN, a former senior Wall Street investment banker, is the bestselling author of The Last Tycoons and the winner of the 2007 FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. He is an online columnist for The New York Times, and writes frequently for Vanity Fair, Fortune, ArtNews, The Financial Times, the Washington Post and the Daily Beast.  He also appears frequently on CNN, Bloomberg TV and CNBC, and also on numerous NPR shows.

Written with the novelistic verve and insider knowledge that made The Last Tycoons a bestseller and a prize winner, House of Cards is a chilling cautionary tale about greed, arrogance, and stupidity in the financial world, and the consequences for all of us.

The New York Times - Michiko Kakutani

Like Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker and Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's Barbarians at the Gate, this volume turns complex Wall Street maneuverings into high drama that is gripping—and almost immediately comprehensible—to the lay reader…Mr. Cohan writes with an insider's knowledge of the workings of Wall Street, a reporter's investigative instincts and a natural storyteller's narrative command…makes for riveting, edge-of-the-seat reading