William D Cohan
Business Writer
William Cohan is a New York Times bestselling author, former &A investment banker, and financial journalist. He is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair and also writes for the New York Times, Financial Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The Atlantic, TheNation, Fortune, and Politico.
Who is…
- Cohan is the author of three non-fiction narratives about Wall Street: “Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World;” “House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street;” and “The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.”
- “The Last Tycoons” was the winner of the 2007 FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
- Cohan has appeared as a guest on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The NewsHour, The Charlie Rose Show, The Tavis Smiley Show, and CBS This Morning as well as on numerous NPR, BBC and Bloomberg radio programs.
- He is a former contributing editor for Bloomberg TV.
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