Adolphe-William Bouguereau, The Birth of Venus, 1879 Mildred:“That Ted Forrester’s nice-looking, isn’t he? Veda likes him.” Monte:“Who wouldn’t? He has a million dollars.” — Mildred Pierce (1945) Wall Street has a problem. Kevin Roose, who wrote the definitive bildungsroman/sob story of early-2010s twenty-somethings on Wall Street, nails it. Finance is no longer the first choice of ambitious, high-achieving college graduates. Technology is:Hyperdriven, multitalented young peop...
