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The Predators' Ball by Connie Bruck

The Predators’ Ball

The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the JunkBond Raiders

By Connie Bruck

By Connie Bruck

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Jun 01, 1989 | ISBN 9780140120905

The Predators' Ball by Connie Bruck
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Jun 01, 1989 | ISBN 9780140120905

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About The Predators’ Ball

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? The Predators’ Ball dramatically captures American business history in the making, uncovering the philosophy of greed that has dominated Wall Street in the 1980s.

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About Connie Bruck

Connie Bruck has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1989 where she writes about business and politics. Her pieces have won multiple awards for reporting and journalism. Her stories have also appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Atlantic Monthly. She is… More about Connie Bruck

Product Details

Category: Economics | Management | Biography & Memoir

Paperback | $17.00
Published by Penguin Books
Jun 01, 1989 | 400 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780140120905

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Table Of Contents

Prologue: The Ball
Part One: Spreading the Gospel
1. The Miner’s Headlamp
2. Dr. Feelgood
3. Transformation
4. Merge with Mike
5. The Cloister at Wilshire and Rodeo
6. The Air Fund
Part Two: Pawns Capture Kings
7. Triangle—National Can: Kingmaker
8. Icahn-TWA: From Greenmailer to Manager-Owner
9. Pantry Pride—Revlon: The Crucial Campaign
Part Three: The Zenith—and the Fall
10. “Drexel is like a god…”
11. Proven Prophet—So Far
12. Milken’s Money Machine
13. The Enforcer
14. Sovereign Privileges
15. Boesky Day
16. The Center Cannot Hold
17. The Humbling
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Index

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