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100 1 $aHenriques, Diana B.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85177786
245 14 $aThe white sharks of Wall Street :$bThomas Mellon Evans and the original corporate raiders /$cDiana B. Henriques.
260 $aNew York :$bScribner,$c[2000], ©2000.
300 $a368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$bportraits ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"A Lisa Drew book."
500 $aIncludes index.
520 1 $a"Long before Michael Milken was using junk bonds to finance corporate takeovers, Thomas Mellon Evans used debt, cash, and the tax code to obtain control of more than eighty American companies. Long before investors began to lobby for "shareholder's rights," Evans was demanding that public companies be run only for their shareholders - not for their employees, their executives, or their surrounding communities.".
520 8 $a"In The White Sharks of Wall Street, New York Times investigative reporter Diana Henriques provides the first biography of this pivotal figure in American business history. She also portrays the other pioneering corporate raiders of the postwar period, such as Robert Young and Louis Wolfson, and shows how these men learned from one another and advanced one another's takeover tactics.
520 8 $aShe relates in dramatic detail a number of important early takeover fights - Wolfson's challenge to Montgomery Ward, Young's move on the New York Central Railroad, the fight for Follansbee Steel - and shows how they foreshadowed the desperate battle waged by Tom Evans's son, Ned Evans, to keep the British raider Robert Maxwell away from his Macmillan publishing empire during the 1980s. Henriques also reaches beyond the business arena to tally the tragic personal cost of Evans's pursuit of success and to show how the family dynasty shattered when his sons were driven by his own stubbornness and pride to become his rivals.
520 8 $aIn the end, the battling patriarch faced his youngest son in a poignant battle for control at the Crane Company, the once-famous Chicago plumbing and valve company that Tom Evans had himself seized in a brilliant takeover coup twenty-five years earlier."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aEvans, Thomas Mellon,$d1910-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99280136
650 0 $aCapitalists and financiers$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008100111
650 0 $aConsolidation and merger of corporations$zUnited States$xHistory.
651 0 $aWall Street (New York, N.Y.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85144918
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