Den of Thieves

A respectable account of the most significant insider trading scandal of all time as well as Michael Milken, the most rapid accumulator of wealth at that time. Den of Thieves is doomed to be remembered as a history book, though. While the author managed to wring every drop of fun out of this storyli......more

It was interesting to return to this book over twenty years after first reading it. For some reason I consumed the many tales of greed that were published at the time...Barbarians at the Gate, Mr. Diamond, Liar's Poker. A decade later there was the spate of books on Enron, Tyco, ADM. A few short yea......more

EDIT: OMG... Now I am absolutely PISSED off at Simon and SHUCKSTER... I was asked about this books winning the Pulitzer... so I looked it up. It DID NOT WIN THE PULITZER! I am looking at the book which I have physically in my possession. The published a book has a bold red circle which reads "Pulitzer......more

Part of the disgust with Washington and big business stems from the slew of mergers and acquisitions that began during the seventies and eighties and which resulted in many people losing their jobs as the larger entities pulled cash out of the acquisitions, cut jobs, and moved much of the business o......more

I recently finished reading Den Of Thieves - by Pulitzer Price Winner, James B. Stewart. Below are key excerpts from the book that I found to be particularly insightful: Even now it is hard to grasp the magnitude and the scope of the crime that unfolded, beginning in the mid-1970s, in the nation's ma......more