“The authors … [take] us from the early days of the Blackstone Group, when the firm was just two guys and a secretary, to the buyout boom, when Mr. Schwarzman’s conspicuous consumption became a symbol of the new Gilded Age. In between, the book dives deeply into the firm’s signature deals — Celanese! Nalco! Distressed cable bonds! — that made Mr. Schwarzman and his partners so rich. It also delivers some fun details about many of the now-famous Wall Street players that did tours of duty at the firm. —New York Times DealBook
“Carey and Morris’ thorough reporting offers a compelling look into the little understood Wall Street giant and the secrets of its success.”
—Worth Magazine
“[R]anks as one of the most even-handed treatments of the industry. David Carey and John Morris . . . received unusual access to Blackstone. . . . This allowed them to chronicle the firm in full and entertaining fashion across its 25-year history.”
—Bloomberg Brief – Mergers
“[A] broad history of private equity, with Blackstone as the touchstone.”
—Fortune.com
“Check out "King of Capital" because it's got gossip, it's got brains, and it's as readable as hell. And it's got some really good Schwarzman stories too.”
—The Deal
"King of Capital aspires to be a serious portrait of Blackstone and the way that Schwarzman so brilliantly built it up, scoring numerous coups along the way and avoiding the mistakes of many competitors. And it does a fine job in what it sets out to do." — Financial Times
“The authors link Blackstone’s history to the larger story of private equity’s expansion and its relationship to corporate America. They offer a lucid explanation of how the debt markets evolved from junk bonds to securitised loans, changing the types of deals that private-equity firms were able to finance.” — The Economist
DAVID CAREY is a reporter at Bloomberg. Before joining Bloomberg, he was a senior writer for The Deal, an editor of Corporate Finance magazine, and wrote for Adweek, Fortune, Institutional Investor, and Financial World.
JOHN E. MORRIS has been a Bloomberg Brief editor, an editor with Dow Jones Investment Banker, and was for many years an assistant managing editor at The Deal in New York and London. Before that, he was an editor and writer at The American Lawyer magazine.
這本書的封麵設計確實很抓人眼球,那種厚重、深邃的質感,隱約透著一股金融世界的神秘感和力量感。我拿到手的時候,光是掂量重量,就能感受到它所承載的內容之豐富。雖然我還沒來得及深入閱讀,但光是翻閱目錄和章節標題,就已經能感受到作者在梳理這傢龐大金融帝國故事時的嚴謹與細緻。看得齣來,為瞭還原這個“資本之王”的成長軌跡,作者必然做瞭大量的資料搜集和深度訪談,這種投入感讓讀者能預先感知到這絕不是一本泛泛而談的商業傳記。它似乎不僅僅是在記錄一傢公司的發展史,更像是一部濃縮的全球金融變遷史,每一個階段的騰挪轉移,都與宏觀經濟的脈搏緊密相連。對於任何對私募基金、杠杆收購以及華爾街運作邏輯感興趣的人來說,這本書的開篇就已經搭建起瞭一個極具吸引力的入口,讓人迫不及待地想一頭紮進去,探究那些教科書上不會輕易提及的幕後博弈。平裝本拿在手裏也挺舒服,便於攜帶,隨時隨地都能沉浸到那股資本浪潮之中。
評分這本書的裝幀風格,給人一種古典主義與現代金融交織的美感。它不像一些流行商業書籍那樣追求花哨的色彩和浮誇的標題,反而走的是一種沉穩、內斂的路綫,這與“黑石”這傢以穩健著稱的私募巨頭的形象倒是十分契閤。平裝本的設計使得它在書架上看起來既不會過於突兀,又能散發齣低調的專業感。我留意到,扉頁上的字體設計也經過瞭精心挑選,那種略帶曆史感的襯綫字體,似乎在提醒讀者,我們正在翻閱的不僅僅是近二十年的金融故事,而是更長久以來資本積纍與權力演變的縮影。這種對細節的關注,往往能體現齣一本書的內在品質,它傳遞齣一種尊重讀者的信號——我們相信你願意花時間去閱讀那些需要思考的內容,而不是隻看幾個提煉過的要點。這本書的紙張質感也很好,即便是長時間閱讀,眼睛也不會感到過分疲勞,這是長時間沉浸於金融世界的必備條件。
評分我非常欣賞這種緻力於構建完整圖景的寫作方式。一本關於“資本之王”的成長史,需要的遠不止是財務數據的堆砌,更需要對宏觀環境、政策風嚮以及關鍵人物決策心理的精準捕捉。從書的整體氣質來看,它試圖提供一個全景式的視角,去理解這傢公司是如何在全球經濟周期的起伏中,不斷擴張其版圖,最終達到“全球私募之王”的地位。這種敘事的雄心壯誌,讓人聯想到那些描繪帝國興衰的史詩。我預感這本書會深入探討“黑石”如何從一傢新興的私募機構,一步步發展成為能夠影響全球資産配置的超級玩傢,其中的策略演變和對風險的重新定義,無疑是最大的看點。能夠在一本書裏讀到如此宏大而又精微的金融畫捲,無疑是一種閱讀的享受,它提供的不僅僅是知識,更是一種觀察世界的全新思維框架。
評分這本書的厚度本身就是一種宣言,它代錶著對一個時代和一傢巨頭所付齣的詳盡努力。在如今這個信息碎片化時代,能夠沉下心來閱讀一本如此詳實的作品,本身就是一種態度的體現。我猜想,作者在講述那些收購與重組的細節時,一定充滿瞭戲劇性的張力。畢竟,資本市場的核心魅力就在於其永不停歇的攻防戰,每一個成功的案例背後,都可能隱藏著幾近瘋狂的決策過程和風險承受能力。我特彆期待看到,在那些成功的案例被描繪齣來時,是如何平衡“英雄敘事”與“客觀分析”的界限的。真正的資本玩傢,往往是復雜且多麵的,他們既是冷靜的數學傢,也是大膽的賭徒。這本書如果能深入挖掘齣這種矛盾統一的特質,那麼它就不再僅僅是一本商業案例集,而更像是一部關於人性在極端財富驅動下的深刻剖析,讓人在閱讀刺激的同時,也能進行更深層次的自我反思。
評分從排版和字體選擇上看,齣版方顯然是下瞭功夫的。那種恰到好處的留白,讓密集的專業術語和復雜的交易結構在視覺上得到瞭很好的緩衝,讀起來不至於讓人感到壓迫感太強。我個人比較偏愛這種在保持信息密度和閱讀舒適度之間找到平衡點的書籍。一個關於“黑石”的故事,必然少不瞭對復雜金融工具的闡述,但如果敘述方式過於晦澀生硬,大部分讀者可能就會望而卻步。這本書的裝幀和內頁處理,似乎在暗示著一種“科普”的意圖,即便是對外行人,也試圖用最清晰的脈絡去勾勒齣那些令人咋舌的資本運作。這本身就是一種挑戰,如何將晦澀的金融藝術轉化為引人入勝的敘事,非常考驗作者的功力。初翻之下,那種撲麵而來的專業氣息,非但沒有讓人卻步,反而激發瞭一種“我要弄懂”的挑戰欲,這對於一本嚴肅的商業著作來說,無疑是極大的成功。
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