Barbarians at the Gate shows you how not to run a business and reveals the shocking greed of corporate America in the 1980s by telling the story of the leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco.

The 1980s are associated with big hair, synths, and the winding down of the Cold War.

But the 1980s are also remembered as a time when corporate greed reached unprecedented new heights, enabled by new business strategies like hostile takeovers and leveraged buyouts.

In this classic 1989 book, investigative journalists Bryan Burrough and John Helyar take a close look at investment company KKR's acquisition of RJR Nabisco, at the time the largest leveraged buyout in history.

Full of drama, power struggles, and corporate intrigue, the book is a gripping chronicle of the spectacular greed that came to define a decade.