<div>A New York Times&ndash;bestselling author&rsquo;s &ldquo;superbly reported&rdquo; account of the dismantling of the world&rsquo;s largest corporation (The Washington Post). Written by the two-time Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author of Ghost Wars and Private Empire, The Deal of the Century chronicles the decade-long war for control of AT&amp;T. When the US Department of Justice brought an antitrust lawsuit against AT&amp;T in 1974, the telecommunications giant held a monopoly on phone service throughout the country. Over the following decade, an army of lawyers, executives, politicians, and judges spent countless hours clashing over what amounted to the biggest corporate breakup in American history. From boardroom to courtroom, Steve Coll untangles the myriad threads of this complex and critical case and gives readers &ldquo;an excellent behind-the-scenes look&rdquo; at the human drama involved in the remaking of an entire industry (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Hailed by the New York Times Book Review as &ldquo;rich, intricate and convincing,&rdquo; The Deal of the Century is the definitive narrative of a momentous turning point in the way America does business. </div>

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<div>A &ldquo;spellbinding account&rdquo; of Wall Street deregulation in the 1980s, based on a Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning Washington Post series (The New York Times Book Review). Described by the New York Times Book Review as &ldquo;worthy of being on the same shelf&rdquo; as Liar&rsquo;s Poker, Greed and Glory on Wall Street, and Barbarians at the Gate, this eye-opening business history explains how Washington and Wall Street cut the deals that led to a decade of greed. For the Securities and Exchange Commission, the 1980s brought sweeping changes. Under the sway of Reaganomics and the leadership of John Shad, the SEC came down hard on insider trading but introduced wide-ranging deregulation to the stock market, which helped to both fuel the legendary bull market and sow the seeds of the 1987 crash. Shad, a former vice-chairman of the brokerage firm EF Hutton &amp; Company and the first Wall Street executive to lead the SEC since Joseph Kennedy, was a true believer in the free market. His tenure touched all the big headlines and enduring images of this tumultuous decade, from leveraged buyouts to junk bonds, Manhattan skyscrapers to Senate hearing rooms, Michael Milken to T. Boone Pickens. David A. Vise and Steve Coll won the Pulitzer Prize for the original reporting in the Washington Post that would become Eagle on the Street. In an era when the costs, benefits, and risks of deregulation are under debate once again, their &ldquo;engrossing account of the struggle for the soul of the SEC&rdquo; is essential reading (The Washington Post). </div>

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<div>A larger-than-life account of family, greed, and a courtroom showdown between Big Oil rivals from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Private Empire. Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author Steve Coll is renowned for &ldquo;his ability to take complicated, significant business stories and turn them into quick-reading engaging narratives&rdquo; (Chicago Tribune). Coll is at the height of his talents in this &ldquo;riveting&rdquo; tale of one of the most spectacular&mdash;and catastrophic&mdash;corporate takeovers of all time (Newsday). As the head of a sprawling oil empire, J. Paul Getty was once the world&rsquo;s richest man. But by 1984, eight years after his death, Getty&rsquo;s legacy was in tatters: His children were locked in a bitter feud over the family trust and the company he founded was riven by boardroom turmoil. Then Pennzoil made an agreement with Getty&rsquo;s son, Gordon, to purchase Getty Oil. It was a done deal&mdash;until Texaco swooped in to claim the $10 billion prize. What followed was an epic legal battle that pit &ldquo;good ole boy&rdquo; J. Hugh Liedtke of Pennzoil against the Wall Street brokers behind Texaco&rsquo;s offer. The scandalous details of the case would shock the business world and change the landscape of the oil industry forever. With a large cast of colorful characters and the dramatic pacing of a novel, The Taking of Getty Oil is a &ldquo;suspenseful&rdquo; and &ldquo;always intriguing&rdquo; chronicle of one of the most fascinating chapters in American corporate history (Publishers Weekly). </div>

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