RJR Nabisco

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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.

7 books

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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

Books 7

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabi
T1 Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Bryan Burrough, John Helyar · 1989 · The canonical LBO narrative.
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Jim CollinsMohnish PabraiChamath Palihapitiya
Ashes to Ashes
T1 Ashes to Ashes
Richard Kluger · 1996 · Pulitzer-winning history of the cigarette war; R.J. Reynolds is a principal actor.
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Merchants of Debt: KKR and the Mortgaging of
T2 Merchants of Debt: KKR and the Mortgaging of American Business
George Anders · 1992 · The buyer's side of the same story.
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The New Financial Capitalists: Kohlberg Krav
T2 The New Financial Capitalists: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the Creation of Corporate Value
George P. Baker, George David Smith · 1998 · Academic reconstruction of the RJR deal and the governance case for it.
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Mohnish Pabrai
The Cigarette Century
T2 The Cigarette Century
Allan M. Brandt · 2007 · The regulatory and litigation environment that set what the tobacco assets were worth.
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The Gilded Leaf
T3 The Gilded Leaf
Patrick Reynolds, Tom Shachtman · 1989 · Family insider account of the Reynolds fortune and the company it built.
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True Greed: What Really Happened in the Batt
T3 True Greed: What Really Happened in the Battle for RJR Nabisco
Hope Lampert · 1990 · The rival account, published months after Barbarians.
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