Tom Wolfe Revisits Wall Street For The Daily Beast And Explains What Would Happen To Sherman McCoy Today

Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities is a modern classic that perfectly captures an era on Wall Street and in New York City when traders still yelled in pits and bankers were 'masters of the universe.' That was 1987. This weekend, for the Daily Beast, Wolfe revisited the city and the neighborhood where his readers met Sherman McCoy, a bond trader with a perfect Park Avenue life, 25 years ago. But things had changed. Wolfe found no masters of the universe there. Instead he found 'Eunuchs of the Un...