Author: Irving Shulman
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595141447
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
The Big Brokers is an explosive novel of America's jungle. Here is the story of three New York boys, Mitch, Larry and Bull, who took Las Vegas by storm-and then turned their guns against their bosses' bosses. Authentic and shocking, The Big Brokers exposes the inner workings of the syndicate. It is a masterful chronicle of men and women who choose crime as a way of life.
The Big Brokers
Author: Irving Shulman
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595141447
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
The Big Brokers is an explosive novel of America's jungle. Here is the story of three New York boys, Mitch, Larry and Bull, who took Las Vegas by storm-and then turned their guns against their bosses' bosses. Authentic and shocking, The Big Brokers exposes the inner workings of the syndicate. It is a masterful chronicle of men and women who choose crime as a way of life.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595141447
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
The Big Brokers is an explosive novel of America's jungle. Here is the story of three New York boys, Mitch, Larry and Bull, who took Las Vegas by storm-and then turned their guns against their bosses' bosses. Authentic and shocking, The Big Brokers exposes the inner workings of the syndicate. It is a masterful chronicle of men and women who choose crime as a way of life.
The Big Brokers
Author: Irving Shulman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The Big Brokers-a shocking, no-holds-barred novel of the syndicate; the big bosses, the hit men and their women. The Big Brokers is an explosive novel of America's jungle. Here is the story of three New York boys, Mitch, Larry and Bull, who took Las Vegas by storm-and then turned their guns against their bosses' bosses. Authentic and shocking, The Big Brokers exposes the inner workings of the syndicate. It is a masterful chronicle of men and women who choose crime as a way of life.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The Big Brokers-a shocking, no-holds-barred novel of the syndicate; the big bosses, the hit men and their women. The Big Brokers is an explosive novel of America's jungle. Here is the story of three New York boys, Mitch, Larry and Bull, who took Las Vegas by storm-and then turned their guns against their bosses' bosses. Authentic and shocking, The Big Brokers exposes the inner workings of the syndicate. It is a masterful chronicle of men and women who choose crime as a way of life.
God Is My Broker
Author: Christopher Buckley
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0307799557
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This is an incredible story. The author, a failed, alcoholic Wall Street trader, had retreated to a monastery. It, too, was failing. Then, one fateful day, Brother Ty decided to let God be his broker--and not only saved the monastery but discovered the 7 1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth. Brother Ty's remarkable success has been studied at the nation's leading business schools and scrutinized by Wall Street's greatest minds, but until now the secret to his 7 1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth have been available only to a select few: • 87 percent of America's billionaires • 28 recent Academy Award winners • Over half the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize • No members of the U.S. Congress Now, for the first time, Brother Ty reveals the secrets he has gleaned from the ancient texts of the monks, and tells how you can get God to be your broker. God Is My Broker is the first truly great self-help business novel. Open this book and open your heart. It will change your life.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0307799557
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This is an incredible story. The author, a failed, alcoholic Wall Street trader, had retreated to a monastery. It, too, was failing. Then, one fateful day, Brother Ty decided to let God be his broker--and not only saved the monastery but discovered the 7 1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth. Brother Ty's remarkable success has been studied at the nation's leading business schools and scrutinized by Wall Street's greatest minds, but until now the secret to his 7 1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth have been available only to a select few: • 87 percent of America's billionaires • 28 recent Academy Award winners • Over half the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize • No members of the U.S. Congress Now, for the first time, Brother Ty reveals the secrets he has gleaned from the ancient texts of the monks, and tells how you can get God to be your broker. God Is My Broker is the first truly great self-help business novel. Open this book and open your heart. It will change your life.
The Honest Broker
Author: Roger A. Pielke, Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139464825
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Scientists have a choice concerning what role they should play in political debates and policy formation, particularly in terms of how they present their research. This book is about understanding this choice, what considerations are important to think about when deciding, and the consequences of such choices for the individual scientist and the broader scientific enterprise. Rather than prescribing what course of action each scientist ought to take, the book aims to identify a range of options for individual scientists to consider in making their own judgments about how they would like to position themselves in relation to policy and politics. Using examples from a range of scientific controversies and thought-provoking analogies from other walks of life, The Honest Broker challenges us all - scientists, politicians and citizens - to think carefully about how best science can contribute to policy-making and a healthy democracy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139464825
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Scientists have a choice concerning what role they should play in political debates and policy formation, particularly in terms of how they present their research. This book is about understanding this choice, what considerations are important to think about when deciding, and the consequences of such choices for the individual scientist and the broader scientific enterprise. Rather than prescribing what course of action each scientist ought to take, the book aims to identify a range of options for individual scientists to consider in making their own judgments about how they would like to position themselves in relation to policy and politics. Using examples from a range of scientific controversies and thought-provoking analogies from other walks of life, The Honest Broker challenges us all - scientists, politicians and citizens - to think carefully about how best science can contribute to policy-making and a healthy democracy.
The Curbstone Brokers
Author: Robert Sobel
Publisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 9781893122659
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 9781893122659
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Power Broker
Author: Robert A. Caro
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593802462
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1345
Book Description
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens—the way things really get done in America's City Halls and Statehouses—and brings to light a bonanza of vital information about such national figures as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt (and the genesis of their blood feud), about Fiorello La Guardia, John V. Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller. But The Power Broker is first and foremost a brilliant multidimensional portrait of a man—an extraordinary man who, denied power within the normal framework of the democratic process, stepped outside that framework to grasp power sufficient to shape a great city and to hold sway over the very texture of millions of lives. We see how Moses began: the handsome, intellectual young heir to the world of Our Crowd, an idealist. How, rebuffed by the entrenched political establishment, he fought for the power to accomplish his ideals. How he first created a miraculous flowering of parks and parkways, playlands and beaches—and then ultimately brought down on the city the smog-choked aridity of our urban landscape, the endless miles of (never sufficient) highway, the hopeless sprawl of Long Island, the massive failures of public housing, and countless other barriers to humane living. How, inevitably, the accumulation of power became an end in itself. Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor. He was held in fear—his dossiers could disgorge the dark secret of anyone who opposed him. He was, he claimed, above politics, above deals; and through decade after decade, the newspapers and the public believed. Meanwhile, he was developing his public authorities into a fourth branch of government known as "Triborough"—a government whose records were closed to the public, whose policies and plans were decided not by voters or elected officials but solely by Moses—an immense economic force directing pressure on labor unions, on banks, on all the city's political and economic institutions, and on the press, and on the Church. He doled out millions of dollars' worth of legal fees, insurance commissions, lucrative contracts on the basis of who could best pay him back in the only coin he coveted: power. He dominated the politics and politicians of his time—without ever having been elected to any office. He was, in essence, above our democratic system. Robert Moses held power in the state for 44 years, through the governorships of Smith, Roosevelt, Lehman, Dewey, Harriman and Rockefeller, and in the city for 34 years, through the mayoralties of La Guardia, O'Dwyer, Impellitteri, Wagner and Lindsay, He personally conceived and carried through public works costing 27 billion dollars—he was undoubtedly America's greatest builder. This is how he built and dominated New York—before, finally, he was stripped of his reputation (by the press) and his power (by Nelson Rockefeller). But his work, and his will, had been done.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593802462
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1345
Book Description
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens—the way things really get done in America's City Halls and Statehouses—and brings to light a bonanza of vital information about such national figures as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt (and the genesis of their blood feud), about Fiorello La Guardia, John V. Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller. But The Power Broker is first and foremost a brilliant multidimensional portrait of a man—an extraordinary man who, denied power within the normal framework of the democratic process, stepped outside that framework to grasp power sufficient to shape a great city and to hold sway over the very texture of millions of lives. We see how Moses began: the handsome, intellectual young heir to the world of Our Crowd, an idealist. How, rebuffed by the entrenched political establishment, he fought for the power to accomplish his ideals. How he first created a miraculous flowering of parks and parkways, playlands and beaches—and then ultimately brought down on the city the smog-choked aridity of our urban landscape, the endless miles of (never sufficient) highway, the hopeless sprawl of Long Island, the massive failures of public housing, and countless other barriers to humane living. How, inevitably, the accumulation of power became an end in itself. Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor. He was held in fear—his dossiers could disgorge the dark secret of anyone who opposed him. He was, he claimed, above politics, above deals; and through decade after decade, the newspapers and the public believed. Meanwhile, he was developing his public authorities into a fourth branch of government known as "Triborough"—a government whose records were closed to the public, whose policies and plans were decided not by voters or elected officials but solely by Moses—an immense economic force directing pressure on labor unions, on banks, on all the city's political and economic institutions, and on the press, and on the Church. He doled out millions of dollars' worth of legal fees, insurance commissions, lucrative contracts on the basis of who could best pay him back in the only coin he coveted: power. He dominated the politics and politicians of his time—without ever having been elected to any office. He was, in essence, above our democratic system. Robert Moses held power in the state for 44 years, through the governorships of Smith, Roosevelt, Lehman, Dewey, Harriman and Rockefeller, and in the city for 34 years, through the mayoralties of La Guardia, O'Dwyer, Impellitteri, Wagner and Lindsay, He personally conceived and carried through public works costing 27 billion dollars—he was undoubtedly America's greatest builder. This is how he built and dominated New York—before, finally, he was stripped of his reputation (by the press) and his power (by Nelson Rockefeller). But his work, and his will, had been done.
The Big Board
Author: Robert Sobel
Publisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 9781893122666
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 9781893122666
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Brokers, Bagmen, and Moles
Author: David Greising
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780471530572
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Describes the two year government undercover operation investigating corruption and illegal practices in the two Chicago commodity exchanges and culminating in the indictments of 46 industry professionals. Describes how these very complicated markets function and how their ``old-boy club'' style first created the problems and later shielded many of its members from investigation and prosecution. A true inside account, it explores rampant fraud and abuse in the futures markets.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780471530572
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Describes the two year government undercover operation investigating corruption and illegal practices in the two Chicago commodity exchanges and culminating in the indictments of 46 industry professionals. Describes how these very complicated markets function and how their ``old-boy club'' style first created the problems and later shielded many of its members from investigation and prosecution. A true inside account, it explores rampant fraud and abuse in the futures markets.
Commercial Real Estate Power Brokers
Author: Jim Gillespie
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781984194855
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Imagine having five of the top commercial real estate brokers in the business bare their souls to you and share their innermost secrets for developing a ton of great new commercial real estate brokerage business. This is what Jim Gillespie, America's Premier Commercial Real Estate Coach, has accomplished within this book. Here's what you'll be learning within this book: How to make sure you get your prospecting done, so you stop making excuses, and you begin making the great amount of money that comes from continually getting your prospecting done every single week How to get the phone numbers for the people you want to do business with, and how to get your database into excellent condition What to say to the receptionist and to the decision maker when you're making your prospecting calls, and how to leave powerful voicemail messages that will compel more decision makers to call you back How to deliver outstanding presentations, so that more of your clients and prospects will feel more compelled to just move forward and give you the listings on their properties How to build solid long-term relationships with your clients, so that you're getting more repeat business from them, instead of needing to constantly chase new prospects for new business How to organize and systematize your brokerage business, so that you're working much more productively, bringing in more new deals, and not being bogged down by doing administrative and follow-up activities that are just completely sapping your time and energy How to position yourself within people's minds as the best commercial real estate broker they could ever want to work with, long before they ever have their next commercial real estate need
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781984194855
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Imagine having five of the top commercial real estate brokers in the business bare their souls to you and share their innermost secrets for developing a ton of great new commercial real estate brokerage business. This is what Jim Gillespie, America's Premier Commercial Real Estate Coach, has accomplished within this book. Here's what you'll be learning within this book: How to make sure you get your prospecting done, so you stop making excuses, and you begin making the great amount of money that comes from continually getting your prospecting done every single week How to get the phone numbers for the people you want to do business with, and how to get your database into excellent condition What to say to the receptionist and to the decision maker when you're making your prospecting calls, and how to leave powerful voicemail messages that will compel more decision makers to call you back How to deliver outstanding presentations, so that more of your clients and prospects will feel more compelled to just move forward and give you the listings on their properties How to build solid long-term relationships with your clients, so that you're getting more repeat business from them, instead of needing to constantly chase new prospects for new business How to organize and systematize your brokerage business, so that you're working much more productively, bringing in more new deals, and not being bogged down by doing administrative and follow-up activities that are just completely sapping your time and energy How to position yourself within people's minds as the best commercial real estate broker they could ever want to work with, long before they ever have their next commercial real estate need
The Adjuster
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description