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20 Years After "Bonfire," Rich White Bankers Still Rule NYC

20 Years After "Bonfire," Rich White Bankers Still Rule NYC
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Robert Thompson remembers vividly what happened when he opened The Bonfire of the Vanities, the chronicle of Eighties New York that captured the city as a decaying cauldron of racial and social division, poised to boil over into disaster.

'I just sat down and kept on reading. I didn't get up until I had finished. He captured that moment of time so well,' said Thompson, professor of popular culture at Syracuse University.

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