Last Tycoons
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They amassed unimaginable fortunes and would stop at nothing to make a deal, until their titanic egos started to jeopardize everything. This is the astonishing story of Lazard Fr#232;res, the world s most elite and legendary investment bank and the men who reigned over it all.For over 150 years Lazard Fr#232;res had stood apart from other Wall Street firms by offering ultra-wealthy clients the wisdom of its Great Men: from Felix Rohatyn, the escapee from Nazi-occupied France turned financial genius, to Michel David-Weill, the inscrutable French billionaire Sun King ; from Steve Rattner, the boy wonder from Long Island who clashed violently with the old guard, to larger-than-life CEO Bruce Wasserstein, Bid-Em-Up Bruce , who broke with the bank s traditions and made himself billions in the process.