Table of Contents

Prologue: The Ball
Part One: Spreading the Gospel
1. The Miner's Headlamp
2. Dr. Feelgood
3. Transformation
4. Merge with Mike
5. The Cloister at Wilshire and Rodeo
6. The Air Fund
Part Two: Pawns Capture Kings
7. Triangle—National Can: Kingmaker
8. Icahn-TWA: From Greenmailer to Manager-Owner
9. Pantry Pride—Revlon: The Crucial Campaign
Part Three: The Zenith—and the Fall
10. "Drexel is like a god..."
11. Proven Prophet—So Far
12. Milken's Money Machine
13. The Enforcer
14. Sovereign Privileges
15. Boesky Day
16. The Center Cannot Hold
17. The Humbling
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Index

About the Author

Connie Bruck has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1989 where she writes about business and politics. Her pieces have won multiple awards for reporting and journalism. Her stories have also appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Atlantic Monthly. She is the author of three books: Master of the Game, The Predators’ Ball, and When Hollywood Had a King.