In his 1987 novel Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe explores the hubris, greed, and recklessness of the 1980s Wall Street boom. One of the central characters, Sherman McCoy, a Wall Street bond trader, styles himself a “master of the universe” because he controls vast amounts of money and is therefore treated deferentially by almost everyone around him. It is a book about t (...)
February 15, 2008
Books
Unintelligent Design
The Case against PerfectionMichael J. SandelHarvard University Press, $18.95, 176 pp.
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