Dangerous Dreamers: The Financial Innovators from Charles Merrill to Michael Milken

A leading business historian presents a vivid account of the real causes of the 80's ''Junk Decade'' and its impact on the business world both here and abroad. Analyzes the great financial innovations from the 1940s to today, their effect upon American commerce and society and the controversial men who created them including Louis Wolfson, T. Boone Pickens, James Ling and Michael Milken.