The Road to Ruin

" In "The Sellout," Charles Gasparino reports that Mr. Fuld once told a trader, after an especially irksome inquiry, that he wanted to "break [his] legs." A question from the floor at an employee town-hall meeting about Lehman's troubled balance sheet caused Mr. Fuld to exclaim: "You deserve to have your legs cut off!" After a dinner in which he urged the wives of Lehman employees to "support their husbands" as they went off to "battle" each day, one wife asked: "Is this guy out of his mind?" "