Stewart,J. Den of Thieves. 1991
Stewart, James B. Den of Thieves. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. 494 pages.
In the early 1960s, students at UC Berkeley spent their summers
registering black voters in the south; in 1964 they started the Free
Speech Movement and in 1969 it was People's Park. But in 1986 Berkeley
seniors voted to invite Ivan Boesky to speak at their commencement.
Boesky, who had never been to college, looked up from his text and said,
"Greed is all right, by the way. I want you to know that. I think that
greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself."
The students broke into spontaneous applause.
Boesky, at the time worth $130 million, was convicted of insider
trading. He helped finger Michael Milken, who was worth $700 million when
he was released from prison after serving two years of a ten-year sentence.
Meanwhile the 1986 class is having trouble finding jobs, and when it comes
time for them to invest in their children's education, a good portion of
their income will still be paying for the S & L deficit -- which was
partially caused by Milken's junk-bond trading. It all fits.
Den of Thieves is basically a biography of Boesky, Milken, Dennis
Levine, and Martin Siegel -- all convicted for Wall Street crimes. Author
James Stewart, an editor at the Wall Street Journal, makes Oliver Stone
look like he was guilty of understatement in his movie "Wall Street."
ISBN 0-671-63802-5
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