William David Cohan (born 1960) is an American business writer.
Books in order of publication:
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. (2007). Winner, Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street (2009). The last days of Bear Stearns & Co.
Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World (2011).
The Price of Silence: The Duke Lacrosse Scandal, the Power of the Elite, and the Corruption of Our Great Universities (2014).
Why Wall Street Matters (2017).
Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short (2019). Portraits of Cohan’s boarding school roommates at Andover: John F. Kennedy, Jr., Jack Berman, Will Daniel, and Harry Bull.
Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon (2022).
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