The Liar's Ball: The Extraordinary Saga of How One Building Broke the World's Toughest Tycoons

This illustrated lecture explores  the world of the real Great Gatsby of New York real estate, Harry Macklowe, one of the most notorious wheelers and dealers of the real estate world, and tells  the story of the gamblers and thieves who populate his world. It focuses on the epic rise and fall of one of the richest American real estate barons, the outlandish greed and cravings for power, attention and love, relationships built and destroyed by vanity and gossip and the bursting of the real estate bubble and its aftermath.