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From the author who brought you the massive New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House, this is the startling rags-to-riches story of an Italian-American kid from the streets of Brooklyn who claws his way into the wild, frenetic world of the oil exchange.After conquering the hallowed halls of Harvard Business School, he enters the testosterone-laced warrens of the Merc Exchange, the asylumlike oil exchange located in lower Manhattan. A place where billions of dollars trade hands every week, the Merc is like a casino on crack, where former garbagemen become millionaires overnight and…
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9 editions- Ebook · English · 2007HarperCollins · 9780061545290
- Other · English · 2008Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 304 pages · 9780747594635
- Other · English · 2008Bloomsbury · 294 pages · 9780747596356
- Other · English · 2007William Morrow · 304 pages · 9780061252723
- Other · English · 2007HarperLuxe · 435 pages · 9780061363979
- Other · English · 2007HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061545320
FinanceBusinessPetroleum industry and tradeBusinesspeopleBusinessmenBiographyNonfictionD'Agostino, John