The Book of Liars Poker Liars[edit] [ Books Economics Author: Michael Lewis Year of publication: 2001 Format: pdf Published. :Olympic Business Pages: 370 Size: 1.9 Language: Russian0 (Votes: 0) Rating:Documentary version of the story about investment banks, revealing the background of Tom Wolfe's story "Bonfire of the Vanities" . Lewis describes his hero’s dizzying journey through Salomon Brothers’ trading floors in London and New York in the mid-1980s, when the firm was the world’s most powerful and profitable investment bank. The story of this path - from a simple trainee to an apprentice-geek and to the winning title of "big trunk" - turned out to be funny and frightening. It is a candid, ruthless and breathtaking tale of hysterical greed and ambition in a closed, manic-obsessed bond market world. The excesses of Wall Street, which were the central theme of the 80s of the 20th century, were accurately reflected in the “Poker of Liars”