The Dinner Club

	Author(s): Henry, Shannon Publisher: Free Press Format: Hardcover List Price:  $26.00
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Overview:
Since 1997, on the second Monday of each month, twenty-six of the most powerful men in business, the Vanderbilts and Morgans of their time, would gather to eat dinner, hear investment pitches, and take one of the few breaks they got all month with the handful of people on earth they saw as their peers. What went on in these four-star restaurants and private dining clubs is the inside story of the 1990s . . . the unimaginable growth of the economy, and in hindsight, its all-too-predictable fall. Washington Post reporter Shannon Henry was the only reporter who had ever been allowed continued access to this intimate and influential group, which included America Online co-founders Steve Case and Jim Kimsey, NASDAQ vice chairman Al Berkeley, WorldCom CEO John Sidgmore, chief executive of MicroStrategy Michael Saylor, Virginia governor and former tech investor Mark Warner, and AOL executive and Washington Wizards co-owner Ted Leonsis. In The Dinner Club, Henry brings readers right to the dinner table, providing an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at these stories of ego, greed, dreams realized, dreams dashed, and the handful who continue to thrive.

Category: Industries