Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman

Ken Auletta. Warner Books, $15.99 (292pp) ISBN 978-0-446-38406-3

New Yorker writer Auletta here relates the vicious behind-the-scenes struggle between two top officers of the former investment banking firm of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, which was thereafter swallowed up by Shearson/American Express. PW called this a ""modern morality tale.'' (March)

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