EPISODE · Feb 19, 2025 · 45 MIN
Bryan Burrough: Co-Author of Barbarians at the Gate
from Nonfiction with Callie Hitchcock · host Callie Hitchcock
“The idea now that running a company is some type of sacred trust, that employees are something to be taken care of, is treated by most people as a laughable idea… this period is the basis of the income inequality we see today.” - Bryan BurroughPublished in 1989 by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, Barbarians at the Gate is a financial thriller about the leveraged buy out of RJR Nabisco. This book is a time capsule of the 1980s greed era zeitgeist and an insiders look at the creation of our casino society. Nonfiction with Callie Hitchcock Patreon
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“The idea now that running a company is some type of sacred trust, that employees are something to be taken care of, is treated by most people as a laughable idea… this period is the basis of the income inequality we see today.” - Bryan BurroughPublished in 1989 by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, Barbarians at the Gate is a financial thriller about the leveraged buy out of RJR Nabisco. This book is a time capsule of the 1980s greed era zeitgeist and an insiders look at the creation of our casino society. Nonfiction with Callie Hitchcock Patreon
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