The price of experience
money, power, image, and murder in Los Angeles
by Randall Sullivan
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When it first came to the public's attention in the fall of 1986, the story of the Billionaire Boys Club and its leader, Joe Hunt, a young man labeled by his prosecutor a "yuppie Charles Manson," was splashed across headlines and TV screens throughout the nation.
The story's surface of rich kids, flagrant excess, and multiple murders fascinated the American public, but deeper truths lay buried beneath the intricate details of a saga so complex that neither its scope nor its implications could be clearly discerned - that is until now. Eight years in the making, The Price of Experience finally reveals, in an utterly gripping narrative, the whole story.
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The Price Of Experience: Power, Money, Image And Murder In Los Angeles
March 7, 1997, Books on Tape, Inc.
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The Price Of Experience: Power, Money, Image And Murder In Los Angeles
March 7, 1997, Books on Tape, Inc.
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The price of experience: money, power, image, and murder in Los Angeles
1996, Atlantic Monthly Press
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The price of experience: money, power, image, and murder in Los Angeles
1996, Atlantic Monthly Press
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This is an epic account of the Billionaire Boys Club case, in which Joe Hunt organized a cadre of former classmates and other gifted young men for the purpose of turning large profits in financial markets. Hunt was charisma incarnate, capable of selling his schemes to naive investors and his ideas (in the form of his amoral Paradox philosophy) to ingenuous followers. He played fast and loose with other people's money, lost much of it, turned to increasingly more desperate measures, got deeper in debt, and ultimately participated in at least two murders in an effort to save himself. This chronicle follows Hunt's story from his days at the prestigious Harvard School in California to his meteoric rise in investment circles and in Los Angeles high society. Sullivan's book tracks Hunt's history with Dreiserian specificity, piling up the details to present a picture of startling clarity and brilliance.
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