Wall Street under reconstruction

Around the time the global settlement with major Wall Street firms was being finalized, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer suggested reading Bonfire of the Vanities to understand what was happening in New York. Tom Wolfe's classic 1987 novel tells the story of a high-flying Wall Street bond salesman brought to his knees by an upstart assistant district attorney after he is found to have left the scene of a hit-and-run in the South Bronx. When Spitzer made his recommendation at a Conference