KATE KELLY
July 8, 2009 - 7:30 PM - Kate Kelly "Street Fighters:The last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns" at Just Books
Just Books is pleased to welcome Kate Kelly, staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal and a former reporter for Time magazine and the New York Observer. Kate Kelly attracted international attention for her three-part series of articles on Bear Stearns, which ran on the front pages of The Wall Street Journal in May 2008. Her book, Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear Sterns, The Toughest Firm on Wall Street (Portfolio Hardcover, $25.95), chronicles the shocking fall of Bear Stearns in March 2008, which set off a wave of global financial turmoil that continues to ripple. How could one of the oldest, most resilient firms on Wall Street go so far astray that it had to be sold at a fire sale price? How could the guys who ran Bear so aggressively miscalculate so completely? In this vivid and dramatic narrative, Kate Kelly takes us inside Bear's walls during its final, frenzied 72 hours as an independent firm. Expanding with fresh detail from her acclaimed front-page series in The Wall Street Journal, she captures every sight, sound, and smell of those three unbelievable days. With a style as riveting as it is enlightening, Street Fighters is the definitive account of a once-great firm's demise, and the human folly that led to the worst financial crisis since the 1930s.
