Separating fools from their money : a history of American financial scandals / Scott B MacDonald and Jane E Hughes
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TextPublication details: New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, 2007Description: ix, 264p, 23cmISBN: - 0765803569
- 364.1680973 MAC
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What do Michael Milken and Martha Stewart have in common? (Answer: Both became public scapegoats for an outrageous era of greed and excess.) Jack Welch and Jim Fisk? (Answer: Both were captains of industry, eventually undone by extracurricular philandering.) Which was the most outrageous party thrown by a financial baron of the twentieth century? (Answer: Tough call, but either Michael Milken's Predators Ball in 1985, or Dennis Kozlowski's Sardinian birthday bash in 2001, with its vodka-spouting sculpture.) Which U.S. war hero president became party to, and victim of, an unabashed con man known as the Napoleon of Wall Street? (Answer: Ulysses S. Grant, but it's a long story.)All these questions were discussed in this book.
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