Monsters of the Ivy League

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If, like most Americans, you think an Ivy League diploma paves the way to Nobel Prizes, Wall Street riches, and a life of prosperity and happiness, think again. Consider these "distinguished" alumni: * John Fairbanks (Dartmouth AB, 1946), embezzler * Amy Bishop (Harvard Ph.D., 1993), mass murderer * Eliot Spitzer (Princeton BA, 1981; Harvard JD, 1984), disgraced NY governor and patron of prostitutes * Cardinal Bernard F. Law (Harvard BA, 1952), protector of abusive priests * Jeffrey Skilling (Harvard MBA, 1979), felonious Enron CEO * Madison Grant (Yale BA, 1887; Columbia LL.B.), eugenicist * Ann Coulter (Cornell BA, 1984), professional bully * Jonah Lehrer (Columbia BA, 2003), plagiarist * Theodore Kaczynski (Harvard BA, 1962), the Unabomber In 85 brief profiles of murderers, rapists, racists, cheaters, lying politicians, slavers, oligarchs, war criminals, traitors, forgers, kiddie-porners, and other moral reprobates, MONSTERS OF THE IVY LEAGUE effectively--and entertainingly!--bursts the bubble of America's obsession with elite colleges.

Ellis Weiner is the only person, dead or alive, who has published in the National Lampoon (where he was an editor), Spy (where he wrote a column), and The New Yorker (where he still appears). He is co-author, with Barbara Davilman, of Yiddish With Dick and Jane, Yiddish With George and Laura, How to Raise a Jewish Dog, The Big Jewish Book for Jews, and other titles. He is founder and editor-in-chief of the Sherman Oaks Review of Books, a "channel" of the Los Angeles Review of Books, which will debut in 2016. Steve Radlauer is the author or co-author of six books. He was a contributing editor at Spy magazine and has contributed to Esquire, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and others. He has worked in television as a writer and producer and has written and produced films that have appeared in venues as diverse as Saturday Night Live, Sesame Street and the New York Film Festival. Randy Jones is an illustrator whose work has appeared in the National Lampoon, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, US News & World Report, and many other publications