Like Michael Lewiss classic Liars Poker, Jared Dillians Street Freak takes us behind the scenes of the legendary Lehman Brothers, exposing its outrageous and often hilarious corporate culture and offering a candid look at the demise of a corporate behemoth (Publishers Weekly).
In the ultracompetitive Ivy League world of Wall Street, Jared Dillian was an outsider as an ex-military, working-class guy in a Mens Wearhouse suit. But he was scrappy and determined; in interviews he told potential managers that Nobody can work harder than me. Nobody is willing to put in the hours I will put in. I am insane. As it turned out, at Lehman Brothers insanity was not an undesirable quality.
Dillian rose from green associate, checking IDs at the entrance to the trading floor in the paranoid days following 9/11, to become an integral part of Lehmans culture in its final years as the firms head Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) trader. More than $1 trillion in wealth passed through his hands, yet the extreme highs and lows of the trading floor masked and exacerbated the symptoms of Dillians undiagnosed bipolar and obsessive-compulsive disorders, leading to a downward spiral that nearly ended his life.
In his electrifying and fresh voice, Dillian takes readers on a wild ride through madness and back.
Street Freak: A Memoir of Money and Madness
Jared Dillian
$21.21 - $26.00
- UPC:
- 9781439181270
- Maximum Purchase:
- 2 units
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 2012-09-11
- Release Date:
- 2012-09-11
- Author:
- Jared Dillian
- Language:
- english
- Edition:
- Reprint