Let's see if this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show. I'm a very special guest. His name is William D. Cohen. And he published a book in 2015. Title of the book is The Price of Silence, the Duke Lacrosse scandal, the power of the elite and the corruption of our great universities. And it was a New York Times bestseller. And I'm delighted to have him.

Somebody reached out to me on social media and said, you should have this guy on your show to

discuss this book. So I'm glad that he's here. This is not his first book that he's written.

He was a former senior Wall Street M&A investment banker for 17 years at Lazard Fores and Co, Merrill Lynch, and J.P. Morgan

Chase, and he is the New York Times bestselling author of three nonfiction narratives about Wall Street.

The titles of those are Money and Power, How Goldman Sachs Came to Rural the World, House of Cards,

a tale of hubris and wretched excess on Wall Street, and The Last Tycoons, the Secret History of Lazzard for Arres, which was a winner of the 2007 Financial Times, Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.

Then this book he published in 2014, 2015, is also New York Times bestseller.

Then in 2017, he put out Why Wall Street Matters, and then also

another book titled Four Friends about what happened to four of his friends from Andover,

his high school, which was published by Flatiron Press in 2019. And then he has a new book

coming out in November 15th, 2022. Title of that is Power Failure, the Rising Fall of an American Icon.

And it's about the fall of General Electric, once the world's most powerful, valuable,

and important company. He is a founding partner of Puck, a digital publication owned and

operated by journalist, and a writer at large for air mail. For 13 years, he was a special

correspondent at Vanity Fair. He also writes or is written for Poro, Publica, the Financial Times,

the New York Times, institutional investor, Bloomberg Businessweek, the Atlantic Fast Company,

the Nation Fortune Politico, Art News, and Barrens. He previously were a bi-weekly opinion

column for the New York Times,

an opinion column for Bloomberg View as well as for the deal book section of the New York Times.

He is a non-staff on-air contributor to CNBC and also appears on CNN, MSNBC, and the BBC TV.

He's appeared three times as a guest on The Daily Show with John Stewart, The News Hour, the Charlie Rose Show, the Tavis Smiley Show, and CBS this morning as well as on NPR, BBC, and Bloomberg Radio Programs. He was formerly a contributing editor for Bloomberg TV. He's a graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover, Duke University, which is in this book, Columbia University School of Journalism, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

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