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The Economist's US finance editor on books about folly and promise on Wall Street
Apr 26th 2010
Thursday May 24th 2012
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It is fiction, I know, but surely any list on the subject of "folly and promise on Wall Street" should include Tom Woolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities". A terrific depiction of Wall Street in the 80s and also extremely funny.