During the '80s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham created the corporate raiders. He was the billionaire Junk Bond King. But, in the corner stood the U.S. District Attorney waiting to file criminal and racketeering charges.
The Predator's Ball : The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders
Description
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
Author Description
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 the author of three books: Master of the Game, The Predators' Ball, and When Hollywood Had a King.