Barbarians at the Gate has been called one of the most influential business books of all time, the definitive account of the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Bryan Burrough and John Helyer's account of the frenzy that overtook Wall Street in October and November of 1988 is the story of dealmakers and publicity flaks, of strategy meetings and society dinners, of boardrooms and balls, giving us not only a detailed look at how financial operations at the highest levels are a richly textured social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era.

Bryan Burrough is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair magagzine in New York. A former Wall Street Journal reporter, he is the author of Dragonfly and Vendetta, as well as the coauthor of the number one New York Times bestseller Barbarians at the Gate.