Bloodsport: When Ruthless Dealmakers, Shrewd Ideologues, and Brawling Lawyers Toppled the Corporate Establishment

But more than any book I've read, Mr. He expertly weaves insider history with a deep theoretical and insightful look into how the United States became a deal nation. Page by page, the author connects the many dots in his extraordinarily information-packed and also opinionated survey that easily grips any reader with an interest in the book's topicIn short, there is fact-driven brilliance in Bloodsport's pages." Ted Sturtz, New York Journal of BooksA great story, with profound implications for the way America views and regulates corporationsTeitelman has a masterly command of his subjectin this comprehensive look at corporate takeovers.” Publishers Weekly"Lively storytelling about complex theories and arcane dealmaking." Kirkus Reviews"Bob Teitleman has written THE definitive book on the rise of the 2.5 trillion deal market. Teitelman's has managed to capture how power shifted

The epic battle of the fascinating, flawed figures behind America's deal culture and their fight over who controls and who benefits from the immense wealth of American corporations.Bloodsport is the story of how the mania for corporate deals and mergers all began. It set in motion the deal-making culture that led to the financialization of the economy and it is the backstory to ongoing debates over competitiveness, job losses, inequality, stratospheric executive pay, and who owns” America's corporations.. Underpinning this explosion in mergers and acquisitionsincluding hostile takeoversare four questions that radically disrupted corporate ownership in the 1970s, whose force remains undiminished:Are shareholders the sole owners” of corporations and the legitimate source of power

Amazon Customer said One of the best business books on dealmaking. As founding editor of The Deal magazine, Bob Teitelman truly was the Voice of the Deal Economy. In fact, he coined the phrase "deal economy" and led the coverage of M&A, private equity, bankruptcies and corporate dealmaking as a legitimate beat before anyone else. Subsequent generations of deal reporters (from Andrew Ross Sorkin on down) follow the path and style trailblazed by Bob and his team.Like many readers, I looked forward to his weekly "Transactions" column and his wry, sophisticated commentary on the state of dealmaking. So I was excited when I learned of his new book on the history of dealmaking. The title alone pro. Lively, witty and informative Mergers and acquisitions may be a fact of life in our contemporary business world, but let’s face it, the subject for a book sounds about as thrilling as a primer on the tax code. “Blood Sport” will make you reassess that view and then some. This excellent new book by the financial writer and editor Robert Teitelman demystifies the complexities of these activities. It breathes life into – and shines light on – a murky, glossed over and often sealed-off corner of the corporate suite and does so in language that is both lively and easy to understand. “Blood Sport” achieves this by focus. Vivid, nuanced, and insightful Robert Teitelman’s Bloodsport is a history of M&A, and the academic ideas and ideologies that underpin it, told in prose that’s crisp, insightful, and nuanced. In an introductory chapter, Teitelman says that his book “returns to the original arguments about the nature and governance of corporations when tested by hostile takeovers.” This might sound appealing only to specialists but Teitelman has such a punchy, vivid writing style that the book races along with a gratifying—not to say fascinating—accessibility.Bloodsport is filled with trenchant, colorful descriptions of the outsized person