Merchants of Debt
KKR and the Mortgaging of American Business
by George Anders
364 pages· 2002· ISBN 9781587981258
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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
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