Barbarians at the Gate
by Bryan Burrough | 
The Money Culture
by Michael Lewis | 
Den of Thieves
by James B. Stewart | 
The Smartest Guys in the Room
by Bethany McLean | 
Money and Power
by William D. Cohan | 
When Genius Failed
by Roger Lowenstein | 
The Last Tycoons
by William D. Cohan | 
Trump
by Donald J. Trump | 
Flash Boys
by Michael Lewis | 
Capital Ideas
by Peter L. Bernstein | 
Business adventures
by John Brooks | 
The End of Wall Street
by Roger Lowenstein | 
The Big Short
by Michael Lewis | 
The Quants
by Scott Patterson | 
Too Big to Fail
by Andrew Ross Sorkin | 
American Steel
by Richard Preston | 
The Visible Hand
by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. | 
The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History
by David Enrich | 
The Box
by Marc Levinson | 
For God, Country, and Coca-Cola
by Mark Pendergrast |
During the 1980s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert was the Billionaire Junk Bond King. He invented such things as "the highly confident letter" (I'm highly confident that I can raise the money you need to buy company X) and "the blind pool" (Here's a billion dollars: let us help you buy a company), and he financed the biggest corporate raiders--men like Carl Icahn and Ronald Perelman.