Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?
How Reginald Lewis Created a Billion-dollar Business Empire
Published on 22. December 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-471-14560-8 (ISBN)
Description
Relates the true story of Reginald Lewis, an American black who rose from poverty in a Baltimore ghetto to become a multi-millionaire, enjoying the privileges of an elite circle of Wall Street investors. It tells of a successful crusade against racial discrimination and lack of opportunity.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 151 mm
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-14560-8 (9780471145608)
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Content
A Kid from West Baltimore; Reg's "Demon Work Ethic": The High School Years; "I'm Going To Be a Millionaire": Lewis at Virginia State; No Application Needed: Breaking Down the Doors of Harvard Law; Making the Cut: The Years at Paul, Weiss; "Masterful" Man: Winning Loida Nicolas; "Thinking Large": Building His Own Law Firm; "I Was Not Ready": The Deals That Didn't Happen; 99 Wall Street: Carving Out a Niche; Targeting McCall: The Birth of TLC; Drexel, the Bear, and the $18 Million Race: Closing the Deal; The 90-to-1 Return: The Sale of McCall; The Biggest Deal of All: The Billion-Dollar LBO of Beatrice; Running TLC Beatrice: Building a Global Giant; Connoisseur, Philanthropist, Citizen of the World; The Lewis Legacy.