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The Liar's Ball : The Extraordinary Saga of How One Building Broke the World's Toughest Tycoons Hardcover - 2014 - 1st Edition
by Vicky Ward
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- Title The Liar's Ball : The Extraordinary Saga of How One Building Broke the World's Toughest Tycoons
- Author Vicky Ward
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
- Date 2014
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G1118295315I3N00
- ISBN 9781118295311 / 1118295315
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.79 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.) - Buildings, structures, etc, Real estate developers - New York (State) -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015303269
- Dewey Decimal Code 725.230
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From the rear cover
The Liar's Ball is about the desperate scramble that ensued when the world's most expensive building went on the auction block. The iconic GM Building brought out the best and worst in New York's real estate royalty, and led a few of them to ruin. But as author and former Vanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward discovered, the story of the GM Building is about much more than real estate.
The Liar's Ball is a story of naked, unregulated capitalism, of the sometimes bloody free-for-all of the free market. It's a tale of brilliant and enormously ambitious billionaires fighting bare-knuckled to get what they want. And they all wanted the GM Building.
Through over 200 interviews with real estate's best and brightest--Donald Trump, Harry Macklowe, Samuel Zell, Mort Zuckerman, and many more--New York Times bestselling author Vicky Ward exposes the lies and schemes and insecurities behind the deals made by some of the world's biggest egos. The Liar's Ball is the riveting real-life tale of just how far these people would go to get the money, power, and attention they so desperately crave.