Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, the Toughest Firm on Wall Street

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The fall of Bear Stearns in March 2008 set off a wave of global financial turmoil that continues to ripple. How could one of the oldest, most resilient firms on Wall Street go so far astray that it had to be sold at a fire-sale price How could the street fighters who ran Bear so aggressively miscalculate so completely Expanding with fresh detail from her acclaimed series in the Wall Street Journal, Kate Kelly captures every sight, sound and smell of Bear's final three days - showing how Bear's executives descended into a brutal civil war.

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Kate Kelly is a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal and a former reporter for Time magazine and the New York Observer. She attracted international attention for her three-part series of articles on Bear Stearns, which ran on the front pages of The Wall Street Journal in May 2008. This is her first book. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.