TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacDonald,Scott B
AU  - Hughes, Jane E
TI  - Separating fools from their money: a history of American financial scandals 
SN  - 0765803569
U1  - 364.1680973 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New Brunswick
PB  - Transaction Publishers
KW  - Commercial crimes
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - White collar crimes
N1  - 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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