{"product_id":"9780743247269","title":"Tearing Down the Walls","description":"Author: Monica Langley\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780743247269\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Free Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 22 Jun 2004\u003cbr\u003ePages: 480\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe is one of the world's most accomplished figures of modern finance. As chairman and chief executive officer of Citigroup, Sanford \"Sandy\" Weill has become an American legend, a banking visionary whose innovativeness, opportunism, and even fear drove him from the lowliest jobs on Wall Street to its most commanding heights. In this unprecedented biography, acclaimed \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e reporter Monica Langley provides a compelling account of Weill's rise to power. What emerges is a portrait of a man who is as vital and as volatile as the market itself. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eTearing Down the Walls\u003c\/i\u003e tells the riveting 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. \u003cbr\u003e\n\n Using nearly five hundred firsthand interviews with key players in Weill's life and career -- including Weill himself -- Langley brilliantly 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 new and startling detail one man's life in a narrative as richly textured and compelling as a novel, \u003ci\u003eTearing Down the Walls\u003c\/i\u003e provides the historical context of the dramatic changes not only in business but also in American society in the last half century.","brand":"Print on demand - Ships in 1 to 3 months","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46871663706270,"sku":"HPC-9780743247269","price":32.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780743247269.jpg?v=1779618640","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780743247269","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}