Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals

Name: Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals
Price: 8.83 USD
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Rating: 4.1 (2964 reviews)
Author: John LeFevre

by John LeFevre

Nonfiction Memoir

4.1 (2,964)

4.1 stars from 2,964 reviews. Top 70% of Nonfiction books we track.

325 pages~5.4 hr readPublished by Grove/Atlantic, IncorporatedPublished 2015-01-01

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Perfect for you if...

You find dark humour in corporate excess and want the unfiltered truth about how investment banking actually worked in the 2000s.
You followed @GSElevator back in the day and want to know what really happened behind those razor-sharp one-liners.
You enjoy memoirs that don't apologise for their protagonists' moral failings, told with wit and self-awareness about the absurdity.

Maybe not for you if...

You're looking for a redemption arc or lessons about why this lifestyle was hollow. LeFevre documents the chaos without much contrition.
You want aspirational finance writing that makes the industry look appealing. This is the opposite. It's brutal about the culture.
You're sensitive to stories involving significant sexism, racism, and generally gross behaviour. These aren't hypothetical topics here.

About this book

Straight to Hell is based on John LeFevre's experience as an investment banker working in New York, London, and Hong Kong. The book expands on the @GS Elevator Twitter feed, which for three years offered an inside look at the lives of international finance professionals. The account attracted hundreds of thousands of followers before Goldman Sachs launched an internal investigation and LeFevre's identity was revealed, creating significant media attention. Beyond the curated tweets and reader submissions that made the account popular, this book presents LeFevre's own account of his banking career. It covers trading floors, roadshows, private planes, and after-hours activities within the financial world. The narrative includes accounts of workplace conduct involving nastiness, sabotage, favoritism, sexism, racism, expense-account padding, and legally questionable collusion, presented as darkly humorous anecdotes about the excessive and dysfunctional nature of high finance.

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Currently 4.1★ from 2,964 reviews

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