Full name: The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the JunkBond Raiders

Author: Connie Bruck Year: 1988 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Business, History Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780140120905 0140120904

During the 1980s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert was the Billionaire Junk Bond King. He invented such things as "the highly confident letter" (I'm highly confident that I can raise the money you need to buy company X) and "the blind pool" (Here's a billion dollars: let us help you buy a company), and he financed the biggest corporate raiders--men like Carl Icahn and Ronald Perelman. And then, on September 7, 1988, things changed. The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Milken and Drexel Burnham Lambert with insider trading and stock fraud. Waiting in the wings was the US District Attorney, who wanted to file criminal and racketeering charges. What motivated Milken in his drive for power and money? Did Drexel Burnham Lambert condone the breaking of laws? dramatically captures American business history in the making, uncovering the philosophy of greed that has dominated Wall Street in the 1980s. Similar books: Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough The Money Culture by Michael Lewis Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean House of Cards by William D. Cohan Money and Power by William D. Cohan When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein Origins of the Crash by Roger Lowenstein The Great Game by John Steele Gordon The Last Tycoons by William D. Cohan Street Fighters by Kate Kelly Trump by Donald J. Trump Flash Boys by Michael Lewis Capital Ideas by Peter L. Bernstein Business adventures by John Brooks American Steel by Richard Preston The Visible Hand by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. The Spider Network by David Enrich The Box by Marc Levinson For God, Country, and Coca-Cola by Mark Pendergrast