Michael Carroll rated The Predators' Ball: 3 stars

The Predators' Ball by Connie Bruck
Recounts the rise of Michael Milken, his firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, and the leveraged buyout boom they helped to fuel …
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Recounts the rise of Michael Milken, his firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, and the leveraged buyout boom they helped to fuel …
The true story of the late 1980s leveraged buyout (LBO) of American food and tobacco conglomerate RJR Nabisco, at the …
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it; and TV ads …
NASA astronaut Michael Collins trained as an experimental test pilot before venturing into space as a vital member of the …
Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time the full and …
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no climate change, no war, …
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb …
The shocking story of the case against Australia's most highly decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, and the defamation trial …
The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own tech start-up to …
From trips on private jets and encounters with world leaders to shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards behind the …
The book moves along at a fair clip, telling the stories of those who got swept up in a tech fantasy with no substance. How did everyone miss the red flags in a company where a 19-year old college drop-out claims to have solved medical diagnostics.
(I mean, even Henry Kissinger was involved.)
When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good …
This “wild and utterly engaging narrative” (Melanie Mitchell) shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death, building …