![]() ![]() Yet as smart as McCoy affects, he is not sly enough to master the ability to hide his affair from his wife. Her name? Maria Ruskin, a young blonde bombshell from the south, who is married to the elder and quite wealthy Arthur Ruskin. He drives a sleek black Mercedes, and of course, he has a girl friend on the side. He is a Wall Street bond financier at Pierce and Pierce who lived with his wife and daughter at 816 Park Ave in a 14-room co-op featured in Architectural Digest. A self-described “master of the universe” because of his ability to sell bonds and make millions of dollars, almost effortlessly, he gives a poster child face to the “Greed is good” mantra of the Gordon Gecko Wall Street of the 80s. Originally published in 1987, THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES tells the story of a hapless Sherman McCoy. Yet underlying this dramatic farce is a powerful story about race and class in the criminal justice system. One finds in this Tom Wolfe novel Wall Street crooks, overzealous headline-grabbing prosecutors, ambitious muckraking reporters, and opportunistic preachers. Email: Dschultz .Ī period novel from the headlines of the 1980s, THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES overwhelms readers with all the drama, greed, ego, and excess of that decade with characters reminiscent of real life players in New York City. Reviewed by David Schultz, Graduate School of Management, Hamline University. ![]()
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