Merchants of Debt: KKR and the Mortgaging of American Business

George Anders

Language: English

Publisher: Beard Books

Published: Nov 15, 2002

Description:

First published in 1992 (by Basic Books), this reprint is timely now in the wake of Enron and WorldCom. Anders tells the story of how Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) took advantage of Wall Street's tolerance of debt to finagle massive corporate takeovers of companies that included Safeway, Drexel, and