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.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-06-016172-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-06-016172-8">0-06-016172-8</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)"><abbr title="Online Computer Library Center number">OCLC</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20491096">20491096</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification" title="Dewey Decimal Classification">Dewey Decimal</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">338.8/3664/00973 20</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/LCC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCC (identifier)"><abbr title="Library of Congress Classification">LC Class</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data">HD2796.R57 B87 1990</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco</b></i> is a 1989 book about the <a href="/wiki/Leveraged_buyout" title="Leveraged buyout">leveraged buyout</a> (LBO) of <a href="/wiki/RJR_Nabisco" title="RJR Nabisco">RJR Nabisco</a>, written by <a href="/wiki/Investigative_journalism" title="Investigative journalism">investigative journalists</a> <a href="/wiki/Bryan_Burrough" title="Bryan Burrough">Bryan Burrough</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Helyar" title="John Helyar">John Helyar</a>. The book is based upon a series of articles written by the authors for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The book was made into a 1993 <a href="/wiki/Made-for-TV_movie" class="mw-redirect" title="Made-for-TV movie">made-for-TV movie</a> by <a href="/wiki/Home_Box_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="Home Box Office">HBO</a>, also called <i><a href="/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate_(film)" title="Barbarians at the Gate (film)">Barbarians at the Gate</a></i>. The book centers on <a href="/wiki/F._Ross_Johnson" title="F. Ross Johnson">F. Ross Johnson</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Chief_Executive_Officer" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Executive Officer">CEO</a> of RJR Nabisco, who planned to buy out the rest of the Nabisco <a href="/wiki/Shareholder" title="Shareholder">shareholders</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Summary">Summary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Barbarians_at_the_Gate&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Summary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Those opposed to Johnson's bid for the company, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Kravis" title="Henry Kravis">Henry Kravis</a> and his cousin <a href="/wiki/George_R._Roberts" title="George R. Roberts">George R. Roberts</a>, were among the pioneers of the <a href="/wiki/Leveraged_buyout" title="Leveraged buyout">leveraged buyout</a> (LBO). Kravis was the first person Johnson had talked to about doing the LBO and felt betrayed after learning that Johnson wanted to do the deal with another firm, <a href="/wiki/American_Express" title="American Express">American Express</a>'s former <a href="/wiki/Shearson_Lehman_Hutton" class="mw-redirect" title="Shearson Lehman Hutton">Shearson Lehman Hutton</a> division. <a href="/wiki/Theodore_J._Forstmann" title="Theodore J. Forstmann">Ted Forstmann</a> and his <a href="/wiki/Forstmann_Little_%26_Company" title="Forstmann Little & Company">Forstmann Little</a> buyout firm also played a prominent role. </p><p>After Kravis and Johnson were unable to reconcile their differences, a bidding war took place which Johnson would eventually lose. The side effect of the augmented buyout price to the shareholders was the creation of a high level of <a href="/wiki/Debt" title="Debt">debt</a> for the company. </p><p>The title of the book comes from a statement by Forstmann, in which he called Kravis' money "phoney <a href="/wiki/Junk_bond" class="mw-redirect" title="Junk bond">junk bond</a> crap" and declares him and his cousin as "real people with real money," also stating that to stop raiders like Kravis: "We need to push the barbarians back from the city gates." </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Important_personalities">Important personalities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Barbarians_at_the_Gate&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Important personalities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/F._Ross_Johnson" title="F. Ross Johnson">F. Ross Johnson</a>, president and CEO, RJR Nabisco</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_A._Horrigan,_Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edward A. Horrigan, Jr. (page does not exist)">Ed Horrigan</a>, president and chief executive officer of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco division of RJR Nabisco</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_J._Robinson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edward J. Robinson (page does not exist)">Edward J. Robinson</a>, chief financial officer of RJR Nabisco</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_A._Cohen" title="Peter A. Cohen">Peter Cohen</a>, chairman and chief executive, <a href="/wiki/Shearson_Lehman_Hutton" class="mw-redirect" title="Shearson Lehman Hutton">Shearson Lehman Hutton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_J._Forstmann" title="Theodore J. Forstmann">Ted Forstmann</a>, senior partner, <a href="/wiki/Forstmann_Little_%26_Company" title="Forstmann Little & Company">Forstmann Little & Company</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=H._John_Greeniaus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="H. John Greeniaus (page does not exist)">John Greeniaus</a>, president and chief executive officer of Nabisco division of RJR Nabisco</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eugene_Yetman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eugene Yetman (page does not exist)">Eugene Yetman</a>, chairman of the board, RJR Nabisco</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Kravis" title="Henry Kravis">Henry Kravis</a>, senior partner, <a href="/wiki/Kohlberg_Kravis_Roberts_%26_Co." class="mw-redirect" title="Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.">Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_R._Roberts" title="George R. Roberts">George R. Roberts</a>, senior partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_D._Robinson_III" title="James D. Robinson III">Jim Robinson</a>, chairman and chief executive, <a href="/wiki/American_Express" title="American Express">American Express</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ted_Ammon" title="Ted Ammon">Ted Ammon</a>, financier and investment banker</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_E._Hugel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles E. Hugel (page does not exist)"> Charles Hugel</a>, special committee director</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Film_adaptation">Film adaptation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Barbarians_at_the_Gate&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Film adaptation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The book was adapted by <a href="/wiki/Larry_Gelbart" title="Larry Gelbart">Larry Gelbart</a> for a <a href="/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate_(film)" title="Barbarians at the Gate (film)">1993 television movie of the same name</a> directed by <a href="/wiki/Glenn_Jordan" title="Glenn Jordan">Glenn Jordan</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publishing_information_and_reception">Publishing information and reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Barbarians_at_the_Gate&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Publishing information and reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2008, <a href="/wiki/HarperCollins" title="HarperCollins">HarperCollins</a> re-released <i>Barbarians</i> to mark the two-decade anniversary of the RJR deal. Media columnist Jon Friedman at <a href="/wiki/MarketWatch" title="MarketWatch">MarketWatch</a> opined on the occasion that it was "the best business book ever." Friedman spoke with the authors about the two-decade history of the book and of their ensuing careers (the two undertook no further joint projects).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Business reporter <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Ross_Sorkin" title="Andrew Ross Sorkin">Andrew Ross Sorkin</a> of <i>The New York Times</i> wrote in his book <i><a href="/wiki/Too_Big_to_Fail_(book)" title="Too Big to Fail (book)">Too Big to Fail</a></i> that this is his favourite business book of all time. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Barbarians_at_the_Gate&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Predators%27_Ball" title="The Predators' Ball">The Predators' Ball</a> by <a href="/wiki/Connie_Bruck" title="Connie Bruck">Connie Bruck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Den_of_Thieves_(Stewart_book)" title="Den of Thieves (Stewart book)">Den of Thieves</a> by <a href="/wiki/James_B._Stewart" title="James B. Stewart">James B. Stewart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liar%27s_Poker" title="Liar's Poker">Liar's Poker</a> by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Lewis" title="Michael Lewis">Michael Lewis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/When_Genius_Failed" title="When Genius Failed">When Genius Failed</a> by Roger Lowenstein</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Too_big_to_fail" title="Too big to fail">Too Big to Fail</a> by Andrew Ross Sorkin</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Big_Short" title="The Big Short">The Big Short</a> by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Lewis" title="Michael Lewis">Michael Lewis</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_of_Capital&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="King of Capital (page does not exist)">King of Capital</a> by David Carey and John E. Morris</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Smartest_Guys_in_the_Room" class="mw-redirect" title="The Smartest Guys in the Room">The Smartest Guys in the Room</a> by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Money_Games:_The_Inside_Story_of_How_American_Dealmakers_Saved_Korea%27s_Most_Iconic_Bank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Money Games: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea's Most Iconic Bank (page does not exist)">Money Games</a> by <a href="/wiki/Weijian_Shan" title="Weijian Shan">Weijian Shan</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Barbarians_at_the_Gate&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFO'Toole1990" class="citation news cs1">O'Toole, Patricia (January 21, 1990). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/21/books/the-granddaddy-of-all-takeovers.html">"The Granddaddy of All Takeovers"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i> – via NYTimes.com.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=The+Granddaddy+of+All+Takeovers&rft.date=1990-01-21&rft.aulast=O%27Toole&rft.aufirst=Patricia&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1990%2F01%2F21%2Fbooks%2Fthe-granddaddy-of-all-takeovers.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABarbarians+at+the+Gate" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/barbarians-at-the-gate-authors-reflect-on-wall-streets-madness">"'Barbarians at the Gate' authors reflect"</a> by Jon Friedman, <i>MarketWatch</i>, 11-21-08. Retrieved 12-8-22.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <ul><li>Hamilton, David P., Book Review, <i><a href="/wiki/Washington_Monthly" title="Washington Monthly">Washington Monthly</a>,</i> January 1990</li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output 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