The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
DAVID CAREY is a reporter at Bloomberg. Before joining Bloomberg,
he was a senior writer for The Deal, an editor of Corporate Finance
magazine, and wrote for Adweek, Fortune, Institutional Investor,
and Financial World.
JOHN E. MORRIS has been a Bloomberg Brief editor, an editor with
Dow Jones Investment Banker, and was for many years an assistant
managing editor at The Deal in New York and London. Before that, he
was an editor and writer at The American Lawyer magazine.
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“The authors … [take] us from the early days of the Blackstone
Group, when the firm was just two guys and a secretary, to the
buyout boom, when Mr. Schwarzman’s conspicuous consumption became a
symbol of the new Gilded Age. In between, the book dives deeply
into the firm’s signature deals — Celanese! Nalco! Distressed cable
bonds! — that made Mr. Schwarzman and his partners so rich. It also
delivers some fun details about many of the now-famous Wall Street
players that did tours of duty at the firm.
—New York Times DealBook
“Carey and Morris’ thorough reporting offers a compelling look into
the little understood Wall Street giant and the secrets of its
success.”
—Worth Magazine
“[R]anks as one of the most even-handed treatments of the industry.
David Carey and John Morris . . . received unusual access to
Blackstone. . . . This allowed them to chronicle the firm in full
and entertaining fashion across its 25-year history.”
—Bloomberg Brief – Mergers
“[A] broad history of private equity, with Blackstone as the
touchstone.”
—Fortune.com
“Check out "King of Capital" because it's got gossip, it's got
brains, and it's as readable as hell. And it's got some really good
Schwarzman stories too.”
—The Deal
"King of Capital aspires to be a serious portrait of Blackstone and
the way that Schwarzman so brilliantly built it up, scoring
numerous coups along the way and avoiding the mistakes of many
competitors. And it does a fine job in what it sets out to do."
—Financial Times
“The authors link Blackstone’s history to the larger story of
private equity’s expansion and its relationship to corporate
America. They offer a lucid explanation of how the debt markets
evolved from junk bonds to securitised loans, changing the types of
deals that private-equity firms were able to finance.”
—The Economist
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