Lazard history takes FT book award
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The Last Tycoons, a "vivid" account of the tumultuous evolution of Lazard (NYSE:LAZ), the investment bank, has narrowly beaten Alan Greenspan's The Age of Turbulence to win the 2007 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) Business Book of the Year Award.
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The shortlist for a prize aimed at awarding blogs that become books has been announced.
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THE prominent Wall Street banker Bruce Wasserstein has put his head on the block to secure the flotation of Lazard, the privately held investment bank he leads.
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1. "The Quickie" by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown and Company)
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Civil War historian James M. McPherson is the recipient of the first Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for lifetime achievement in military writing, the library announced Monday.
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1. "The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield
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The comprehensive and chilling account of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, written by the US government&#39;s 9/11 Commission, was nominated for one of America&#39;s top literary awards on Wednesday.
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British author Alan Hollinghurst won the Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary awards, on Tuesday for the tale of a gay hedonist living in Margaret Thatcher's Britain of the 1980s.
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Merger advisory firm Lazard Ltd  on Wednesday said its fourth-quarter earnings rose 43 percent, beating estimates, on increased merger advisory fees.
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A history professor from Ohio beat the collective efforts of 10 investigative commissioners and some 80 Washington wonks to win the National Book Award for nonfiction Wednesday night.
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Lazard, the 156-year-old investment bank, aims to raise up to $850m (Â£440m) in an initial public offering, it revealed last night.
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When Michel David-Weill, chairman of Lazard LLC, chose Bruce Wasserstein to run his mergers advisory firm in November 2001, he said his new employee was &quot;a fiercely independent and original adviser.
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MICHEL DAVID-WEILL has approved a flotation of Lazard that values the investment bank his family founded at $3.4 billion. The approval is on condition that Bruce Wasserstein, the Wall Street dealmaker running the firm, resigns if the deal fails.
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A lengthy account of the Sept. 11 attacks has been put online by the Library of Congress in the form of nearly 170 audio and video interviews, totaling 40 hours, with photos, drawings, written narratives and poems.
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An archaeologist whose research topics have ranged from Neanderthal hunters in France to the ill-fated Donner Party in the Sierra Nevada is the winner of a top research award typically reserved for more narrowly defined sciences.
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If there is a truth in advertising award for books, specifically book titles, S. L. Price's "Far Afield" is on my short list for 2007 honors. It is literally all over the place, and that's meant as an unqualified compliment.
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"Ravens in the Storm: A Personal History of the 1960s Anti-War Movement" (Scribner, 352 pages, $25), by Carl Oglesby: One of the biggest radical groups in U.S. history, Students for a Democratic Society, imploded in 1969 amid a whirl of ideology and extremism, even as opposition to the Vietnam War soared.