With the ascension to power of a college professor with a taste for reading lists, the staff of TIE WEEKIX STANDARD will be providing, on occasion, an utterly unscientific reading list of our own favorite books on subjects of interest in the news. First up:
a subject near and dear to everyone’s heart; four great novels about money you might want to take a look at:
The Financier, by Theodore Dreiser. A Mike Milken-like investor is so successful playing the markets in post Civil War Philadelphia that the Old Guard sees to it he is thrown in jail.
The Titan, also by Dreiser. The businessman arrested in The Financier gets out of jail, moves to Chicago, and builds the subway system. oFramley Parsonage, by Anthony Trollope. In which a yuppie Anglican minister finds himself personally overextended — perhaps the only genuinely great novel about debt.
