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100	1		_aMacDonald, Scott B _92768143
245	1		_aSeparating fools from their money : _b a history of American financial scandals / _cScott B MacDonald and Jane E Hughes
260			_aNew Brunswick : _bTransaction Publishers, _c2007
300			_aix, 264p, 23cm.
504			_aWhat 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.
650		0	_aCommercial crimes _xUnited States _xHistory _91598612
650		0	_aWhite collar crimes _xUnited States _xHistory. _91598613
700			_aHughes, Jane E _92768144
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