'The Bonfires of Vanities' by Tom Wolfe

COURSE: International Financial History. 

An individual draft of 2000 words. 

The draft shall outline the plot of the novel and shall put the novel/movie in relation to the historical period and the country in which the story takes place. Which financial system was in place when the story takes place? How the banker/s or financier/s is represented by the novel/movie? Which was the consideration enjoyed by bankers/financiers represented in the period/country described by the story? How the novel/movie was received by the  public opinion?