James Stewart

Author, Columnist for SmartMoney and The Wall Street Journal James B. Stewart combines the skills of an investigative reporter with the style and sensibility of a novelist, examining events in business, law and politics that shape American society. The San Francisco Examiner called him the journalist every journalist would like to be.

From his Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal articles on the 1987 stock market crash to pieces about Enron and WorldCom, Stewart explores the use and abuse of power at the highest levels of government and finance.

For The New Yorker, he has written penetrating profiles from Tycos Dennis Kozlowski to Michael Milken. His SmartMoney column, Common Sense, which also runs in The Wall Street Journal, features his insights into business and investing trends.

Stewarts book, Disney War: The Battle for the Magic Kingdom, was a New York Times bestseller and won the Loeb Award for Best Business Book. His Heart of a Soldier was named Best Book about 9/11 by TIME. His other bestsellers include Blood Sport, Blind Eye and Den of Thieves, the definitive account of 1980s Wall Street insider trading scandals. A Harvard-educated lawyer, he is currently the Bloomberg Professor of Business and Economic Journalism at Columbia University.

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[GQ9fig]

What song is this in the beginning?

[dendryite]

Well James Stewart, the fraudsters have gotten away with the biggest crime in our history. Not only that, they have record profits while 99% of the population suffers.

Time to start mowing them down ourselves, I think.