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RJR Nabisco

Consumer goodsconsumer-goods

The 1988 leveraged buyout that closed the decade of debt; Burrough and Helyar dominate the deal literature, and the tobacco histories carry the business underneath it.

Books 7Recommenders 3

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  1. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR NabiscoBryan Burrough, John Helyar, 1989
  2. Merchants of Debt: KKR and the Mortgaging of American BusinessGeorge Anders, 1992
  3. Ashes to AshesRichard Kluger, 1996
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR NabiBarbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
T1 Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Bryan Burrough, John Helyar · 1989
Open LibraryGoodreads

The 1988 bidding war for RJR Nabisco, the largest leveraged buyout to that date.

Recommended by: Jim Collins, Mohnish Pabrai and 1 other

Ashes to AshesAshes to Ashes
T1 Ashes to Ashes
Richard Kluger · 1996
Open LibraryGoodreads

A century of the American cigarette industry, from mass marketing to 1990s lawsuits.

Merchants of Debt: KKR and the Mortgaging ofMerchants of Debt: KKR and the Mortgaging of American Business
T2 Merchants of Debt: KKR and the Mortgaging of American Business
George Anders · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

KKR from 1976 through the RJR Nabisco buyout, and what debt did to its companies.

The New Financial Capitalists: Kohlberg KravThe New Financial Capitalists: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the Creation of Corporate Value
T2 The New Financial Capitalists: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the Creation of Corporate Value
George P. Baker, George David Smith · 1998
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Academic and broadly favorable.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Cigarette CenturyThe Cigarette Century
T2 The Cigarette Century
Allan M. Brandt · 2007
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How the cigarette rose in 20th-century America, and how its harm was proved.

The Gilded LeafThe Gilded Leaf
T3 The Gilded Leaf
Patrick Reynolds, Tom Shachtman · 1989
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The R.J. Reynolds tobacco fortune and the scandals of the heirs who followed.

True Greed: What Really Happened in the BattTrue Greed: What Really Happened in the Battle for RJR Nabisco
T3 True Greed: What Really Happened in the Battle for RJR Nabisco
Hope Lampert · 1990
Open LibraryGoodreads

The rival account, published months after Barbarians.

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