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基本信息·出版社：中国科技资料进出口总公司北京分公司
·页码：282 页
·出版日期：2003年01月
·ISBN：0060510307
·条形码：9780060510305
·版本：第1版
·装帧：平装
·开本：32
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：世贸中心: 失落和复兴的故事
内容简介 《ON TOP OF THE WORLD(世贸中心：失落和复兴的故事)》主要讲述了：On the morning of September 11,2001,nearly 700 of Cantor Fitzgerald's 1,000New York employees were at their desks on the top floors of One World Trade Center when a hijacked passenger plane struk eight floors below.None survived.
On Top of the World tells the story not only of that tragic day but also of the complicated and emotionally charged events that followed.It is an intimate,often harrowing look at how private families processed a public atrocity,how corporate war-room strategy sessions saved the company from liqukdation and the efforts of opportunistic competitors.
作者简介 Tom Barbash is a past winnie of the Nelson Award from the Chicago Tribune,and the James Michener Award.He Teaches and short-story writing at Stanford University.He Lives in San Francisco,California.
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Amazon.com In the attacks of September 11, 2001, 658 of New York brokerage firm Cantor Fitzgerald's 1,000 New York employees were killed. Immediately following the events, author Tom Barbash traveled to New York to profile his college friend, Cantor CEO Howard Lutnick, and chronicle the firm's struggles to stay in business and help its employees' families. The result,
On Top of the World, is a compulsively readable book that is difficult to categorize. Unlike many books about the attacks, its story goes well beyond September 11 and into the following year, helping to better demonstrate the human impact of the catastrophe. And while the book ably describes the horror of the events, it is as much a business study as anything: can a company that trades $200 billion a day in commodities futures survive the sudden death of over 65 percent of its New York employees, and its New York headquarters? Cantor Fitzgerald does endure, but soon Lutnick becomes the center of a media firestorm as Connie Chung, Bill O'Reilly from Fox News, and others question the sincerity of Lutnick's public appearances and denounce his method of compensating the families of those lost. Barbash, a novelist by trade, portrays his friend's struggles sympathetically but also provides well-researched dimension to the other people involved, which helps deepen the human drama of the efforts on the part of all involved to put their lives and their company back together.
--John Moe --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Booklist Housed in the upper floors of Tower One of the World Trade Center, Cantor Fitzgerald lost 658 employees on September 11, 2001. Only a handful were spared by chance, including the company's chairman, Howard Lutnick, who lived because he had taken his son to his first day of kindergarten that morning. His brother, Gary, and best friend, Doug Gardner, were among those who perished. Much like
Triumph over Tragedy (2002), the story of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc., this story details the event through individual accounts of survival, massive shared loss, and the resurrection of a major Wall Street firm against the greatest odds. At the center of it all is Lutnick, who became embroiled in controversy when, after his tearful television appearance, some of the families of the victims complained publicly that he wasn't doing enough to compensate them for their loss, even though a generous crisis fund was in the works. Barbash, an old friend and former newspaper reporter, gives a sympathetic view of Lutnick, a powerful businessman facing the most extraordinary of personal challenges.
David SiegfriedCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. New York Times Book Review Gripping.
编辑推荐 《ON TOP OF THE WORLD(世贸中心：失落和复兴的故事)》是一本纯英文读本。
Thisbookexaminesthemedia scrutiny that followed HowardLutnick，whostruggled tobeatoncethe compassionate leader the grieving families needed and the tough.minded CEO his decimatedcompany required.It also tells the story of the men and women of Cantor whose lost coworkerswere relatives and friends.and brothers and sisters.That Cantor’s business has survived and evenflourished-and that an initially uneasy but ultimately significant covenant has been formedbehveenthosewh00ivedandtheamitiesoftheir lost fiends-isopowerfuotestamenttotheabil.ity of a community to endure.Tom Barboshisapastwinner of the Nelson Algren Award fromthe ChicagoTribune,andthe James Michener Award.He teaches novel and short.story writing at StanfordUniversity He 0ires in Son Francisco，California.
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They know he’s right.Wall Street is already jittery about Cantor.Thcfirm's competition and some bank heads talk publicly ofthe need for sta-biliiyinthebondmarket，meaningtradingwithacompanyatfull-strengdl. Cantor and eSpeed will need to open and function in a11 areas.IftheY lose their place in the market，it will be impossible to help any ofthe families. When the members of the Bond Market Association decide themarket will open Thursday,Howard does not say they are callous orthat his best friend and his only brother are dead.He listens in amaze-ment to their plans and thinks of all he needs to do to keep the firmfrom going under.Maybe because he is in London，where there are no casualties’LeeAmaitis，Cantor's European CEO，is hopeful。His most pressing con-cern is about the technology.Wm the backup systerns work when thebond market opens？If so，the bond side of the business will survive，because Cantor was already doing most of their trading of U.S.Trea-suries through their electronic system，eSpeed. They need to know what's lost and what's left.The branch officesfor equities are untouched.Phil Marber,who runs Cantor’s equities di.vision，was on a business trip in Ohio，a huge break,Amaitis knows.The fact that he’s alive may mean the business will pull through. Whan he returns，Marber will jump in，and from across the AtlanticAmaitis’staff will contact customers，trade stocks，call families，what。ever Marber needs them to do. They pool resources，take on teams of volunteers，stay at their of-rices by their phones night and day,talking to one another like soldiersfrom scattered bunkers.What previously would have taken months todo.they now do in hours.In a normal world the operations people tellthc 7reasury people how much money the firm has taken in，whatthey’ll need to settle，and what they’11 need from the bank。Now ahandful of sleep
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