The Dinner Club
Содержание:
Повесть и рассказы, Свеча, Червона рута, Хатшепсут, Красная трава, День Дениса, Национальный вопрос и социальный аспект с сентября по май, По Миссири, Миссисупи, Белый арап, Надзиратель прошлого, Час ноль, Алое пальто, Поток
Описание:
Since 1997, on the second Monday of each month, twenty-six of the most powerful men in business, the Vanderbilts and Morgans of their time, would gather to eat dinner, hear investment pitches, and take one of the few breaks they got all month with the handful of people on earth they saw as their peers. When Washington Post reporter Shannon Henry heard about these meetings, she knew that the story of the dinners and the tales told at them would provide a fascinating portrait of the greatest business boom in the history of the world. What went on in these four-star restaurants and private dining clubs is the inside story of the 1990s...the unimaginable growth of the economy, and in hindsight, its all-too-predictable fall. Henry, widely labeled the "dot-com diva," was the only reporter who had ever been allowed continued access to this intimate and influential group, which included America Online co-founders Steve Case and Jim Kimsey, NASDAQ vice chairman Al Berkeley, WorldCom...Похожие книги