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I had a friend who said that in the future when people point to a movie and say, "That's what the '80s were like, they'll point to Oliver Stone's "Wall Street." That's what I think about this book.
A bonds trader hits and kills a guy in a scary neighborhood and then runs scared. What's more '80s than that? It's got greed, excess, and Bernard Goetz all rolled into one.
I actually got to hear Tom Wolfe talk about this book while I was in college in the mid-'80s. He wrote it as a serial in Rolling S ...more
A bonds trader hits and kills a guy in a scary neighborhood and then runs scared. What's more '80s than that? It's got greed, excess, and Bernard Goetz all rolled into one.
I actually got to hear Tom Wolfe talk about this book while I was in college in the mid-'80s. He wrote it as a serial in Rolling S ...more
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