Painstakingly assembled from trading records, interviews, SEC documents and deposition transcripts, Stewart weaves a well-reported tale of this important time in America's financial history.

It was shameful how Ivan Boesky was hailed by business magazines and university departments as some kind of business genius. In his home she is treated like a slave while he puts her stories in a magazine and gives the reputation of a reckless young moll. While I wasn’t in the securities industry, it appeared to even my distant observations that there were some shenanigans going on. She and Frank are soon tangled up in a revolt, and sentenced to be hung but are rescued by a strange French boy. On the whole, I think it is a great book and it really helps one understand the whole finance game, and what happens (or used to happen) in wall street.So, we get a bit of a different experience from a true crime or crime fiction work, but it still keeps some of that drama; ultimately, it all comes down to greed and thoughtlessness, like a lot of crime.

g. presents the latest findings in a topical field and is written by a renowned expert but lacks a bit in style. Unfortunately for him, the officials working at the bank where he kept his money – the Swiss Bank Leu – noticed that he traded on insider information. One feature of the book I really appreciated was that it spent a great deal of time discussing the prosecutorial strategies of the SEC and the US attorney's office, then headed by a pre-mayoral Rudy Giuliani. Having been lured to Drexel, Burnham as a senior executive (from Morgan, Stanley in 1986) only weeks before the scandals hit -- and having witnessed the lava-roast at that firm -- it amazes me how Mr.

Stewart painstakingly lays out the principal actors, the actions they took, sins committed and what the consequences were of the junk bond scandal. And of course in light of what's happened since then, the bad behavior of Mike Milken and Ivan Boesky seems relatively benign compared to the actions that led to 2008. When she arrives she notices Billy has become considerably richer, as he has a vast jewel collection, a large gentleman's house with good-quality furniture and expensive clothes. But when the line between on-screen and off begins to blur, Julien and Eli don’t have the luxury of dancing around each other anymore. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.