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Artist
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Mezrich, Ben
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ISBN
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9780061252723
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Book Title
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Rigged : The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, from Wall Street to Dubai
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Publisher
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HarperCollins
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Item Length
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9 in
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Publication Year
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2007
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Format
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Hardcover
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Language
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English
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1 in
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Genre
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Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
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Topic
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Rich & Famous, Industries / Energy, Middle East / General, Petroleum, Business
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Item Weight
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17.7 Oz
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Item Width
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6 in
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Number of Pages
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304 Pages
Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid – 0061252727, Ben Mezrich, hardcover
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0061252727
ISBN-13
9780061252723
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59073102
Product Key Features
Book Title
Rigged : The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, from Wall Street to Dubai
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Rich & Famous, Industries / Energy, Middle East / General, Petroleum, Business
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
17.7 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-030964
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
332.64/42282092 B
Synopsis
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 where fistfights break out on the trading floor. This ordinary kid has traded Brooklyn for the gold-lined hotel palaces of Dubai. He keeps company on the decks of private yachts in Monte Carlo–teeming with half-naked girls flown in by Saudi sheiks–and makes deals in the dangerous back alleys of Beijing. But the Merc is just a starting place. Taken under the wing of another young gun and partnering with a mysterious young Muslim, the kid embarks on a dangerous adventure to revolutionize the oil trading industry–and, along with it, the world. Rigged is the explicit, exclusive, true story behind the headlines that dominate the world stage., From the author who brought you the massive New York Times bestseller Bringing Down The House, Rigged 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. Black Gold. Texas Tea. Everybody wants oil but only a rare few have truly made a killing mastering its intricacies. One of those lucky bastards is Johnny Castino, a ballsy Italian-American from Brooklyn with an ego and a keen intelligence to match his ambition. Rigged is his story: a startling rags-to-riches tale of an ordinary kid turned Harvard grad who found himself caught up in the ultimate high-stakes adventure filled with money, sex, exotic locales, life-threatening danger, and extraordinary international consequences. Moving from the streets of Brooklyn to Dubai, Las Vegas, Monte Carlo, Jakarta, Moscow, and Shanghai, Rigged reveals how the business is run and what happened when a man with solid gold cajones decided to flip a business–and an entire Exchange–on its head., From the author who brought you the massive New York Times bestseller Bringing Down The House , Rigged 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. Black Gold. Texas Tea. Everybody wants oil but only a rare few have truly made a killing mastering its intricacies. One of those lucky bastards is Johnny Castino, a ballsy Italian-American from Brooklyn with an ego and a keen intelligence to match his ambition. Rigged is his story: a startling rags-to-riches tale of an ordinary kid turned Harvard grad who found himself caught up in the ultimate high-stakes adventure filled with money, sex, exotic locales, life-threatening danger, and extraordinary international consequences. Moving from the streets of Brooklyn to Dubai, Las Vegas, Monte Carlo, Jakarta, Moscow, and Shanghai, Rigged reveals how the business is run and what happened when a man with solid gold cajones decided to flip a business–and an entire Exchange–on its head.
LC Classification Number
HD9570
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