Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman

The inside account of a financial meltdown that reshaped Wall Street.

In 1983, Lew Glucksman, then co-CEO of the heralded investment bank Lehman Brothers, demanded the resignation of chairman Pete Peterson, with whom he had long argued over how to manage the company. Shockingly, Peterson, who had taken charge a decade earlier and led Lehman from near collapse to record profits, agreed to step down.

In this meticulously researched volume, Ken Auletta details the turmoil, infighti…