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Book · 1989 · Nonfiction

Barbarians at the Gate

The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
HarperBusiness · 563 pages
★ 6.4 editorial score

In 1988 the chief executive of RJR Nabisco moved to buy his own company and set off a bidding war that closed at $25 billion. Burrough and Helyar put you inside every meeting.

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History
Time
1989Depicts 1980s

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Quote · 1983

“Think big, think positive, never show any sign of weakness. Always go for the throat. Buy low, sell high. Fear? That's the other guy's problem. Nothing you have ever experienced will prepare you for the unbridled carnage you are about to witness. Superbowl, The World Series—they don't know what pressure is. In this building, it's either kill or be killed. You make no friends in the pits and you take no prisoners. One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley. Are you with me?”

Louis Winthorpe III