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The Predators' Ball Study Guide

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by Connie Bruck
About 62 pages (18,452 words)

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The Predators' Ball Study Guide consists of approx. 62 pages of summaries and analysis on The Predators' Ball by Connie Bruck. Browse the literature study guide below:

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"In the third week of March 1985, the faithful, fifteen hundred strong, came to Beverly Hills to pay homage to Michael Milken, the legendary junk-bond guru of Drexel Burnham Lambert whom many of his followers called simply 'the King'. For the next four days, they would savor the world he had created for them.... Their destination was the Beverly Hilton, where the annual Drexel High Yield Bond Conference - by now known as the Predators' Ball - was being held, just a few blocks from Drexel's West Coast Office" (Prologue, pg. 10). (read more)
      Part 1: Chapter 1, The Miner's Headlamp
      Part 1: Chapter 2, Dr. Feelgood
      Part 1: Chapter 3, Transformation
      Part 1: Chapter 4, Merge with Mike
      Part 1: Chapter 5, The Cloister at Wilshire and Rodeo
      Part 1: Chapter 6, The Air Fund
      Part 2: Chapter 7, Triangle-National Can: Kingmaker
      Part 2: Chapter 8, Icahn-TWA: From Greenmailer to Manager-Owner
      Part 2: Chapter 9, Pantry Pride - Revlon: The Crucial Campaign
      Part 3: Chapter 10, 'Drexel is like a God'
      Part 3: Chapter 11, Proven Prophet - So Far
      Part 3: Chapter 12, Milken's Money Machine
      Part 3: Chapter 13, The Enforcer
      Part 3: Chapter 14, Sovereign Privileges
      Part 3: Chapter 15, Boesky Day
      Part 3: Chapter 16, The Center Cannot Hold
      Part 3: Chapter 17, The Humbling

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