American Rage is a crime story: of an assassin’s flight and his capture five days later, followed by his transformation into a celebrity prisoner.American Rage is a portrait: of an Ivy-League-educated, conservative-leaning Gen-Z world traveler and computer scientist who predicted “a revolutionary near future.”American Rage is an exposé: of a confessed kill...

**#1 New York Times bestseller!“A vivid portrait ... a sensitive tribute … a paean to youth, community, and the tenacity of local law enforcement.” —New York Times“This is much more than a true crime book. It’s a vivid exploration of the range of human response when faceless terror strikes. It’s a portrait of America in this polarized moment.” —Town & Country**The Idaho Four, an instant #1 New York Times bestseller, chronicles the...

Kushner, Inc.: The Extraordinary Rise and Dangerous Ambition of Jared Kushner and Ivanka TrumpIn this instant New York Times bestseller, investigative journalist Vicky Ward unveils the swift, gilded rise to power of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump in Donald Trump's White House. Kushner, Inc. depicts the couple as the President's chief enablers, disdainful of rules, laws, and ethics. As entitled inheritors driven by ignorance, arrogance, and an insa...

This book invites the reader to think about collaborative research differently. Using the concepts of ‘letting go’ (the recognition that research is always in a state of becoming) and 'poetics’ (using an approach that might interrupt and remake the conventions of research), it envisions collaborative research as a space where relationships are forged with the use of arts-based and multimodal ways of seeing, inquiring and representing ideas.The book's chapters are interwoven with ‘I...

The inside story of what really happened at Lehman Brothers and why it failedIn The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers, investigative writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward takes readers inside Lehman's highly charged offices. What Ward uncovers is a much bigger story than Lehman losing at the risky game of collateralized debt obligations, swaps, and leverage.A can't put it down page ...

Inside the world of the real Great Gatsby of New York real estateHarry Macklowe is one of the most notorious wheelers and dealers of the real estate world, and Liar's Ball is the story of the gamblers and thieves who populate his world. Watch as Harry makes the gutsy bid for midtown Manhattan's famous GM building and put almost no money down, landing the billion-dollar transaction that made him the poster child for New York's real estate royalty. Listen in...

The first explosive book about Javanka and their infamous rise to powerJared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are the self-styled Prince and Princess of America. Their swift, gilded rise to extraordinary power in Donald Trump’s White House is unprecedented and dangerous. In Kushner, Inc., investigative journalist Vicky Ward digs beneath the myth the couple has created, depicting themselves as the voices of reason in an otherwise crazy presidency, and reve...

From the co-authors of the #1 New York Times bestselling The Idaho Four, an in-depth investigative account of Luigi Mangione's motivations to commit a crime that polarized the nation and mobilized Gen Z.On December 4, 2024, a masked gunman was seen on security cameras fatally shooting Brian Thompson, a health insurance CEO in front of the New York Hilton Midtown at 6:44 a.m.

**#1 New York Times bestseller!“A vivid portrait ... a sensitive tribute … a paean to youth, community, and the tenacity of local law enforcement.” —New York Times“This is much more than a true crime book. It’s a vivid exploration of the range of human response when faceless terror strikes. It’s a portrait of America in this polarized moment.” —Town & Country**The Idaho Four, an instant #1 New York Times bestseller, chronicles the...

You know what happened during the financial crisis … now it is time to understand why the financial system came so close to falling over the edge of the abyss and why it could happen again.Wall Street has been saved, but it hasn’t been reformed. What is the problem?Suzanne McGee provides a penetrating look at the forces that transformed Wall Street from its traditional role as a capital-generating and economy-boosting engine into a behemo...

The intimate, fly-on-the wall tale of the decline and fall of an America iconWith one notable exception, the firms that make up what we know as Wall Street have always been part of an inbred, insular culture that most people only vaguely understand. The exception was Merrill Lynch, a firm that revolutionized the stock market by bringing Wall Street to Main Street, setting up offices in far-flung cities and towns long ignored by the giants of finance. With its “thun...

The story of Steve Schwarzman, Blackstone, and a financial revolution, King of Capital is the greatest untold success story on Wall Street.In King of Capital, David Carey and John Morris show how Blackstone (and other private equity firms) transformed themselves from gamblers, hostile-takeover artists, and ‘barbarians at the gate’ into disciplined, risk-conscious investors while the financial establishment—banks and investment bankers such as Citi...