Monsters of the Ivy League

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 effectivel--and entertainingly!--bursts the bubble of America's obsession with elite colleges. 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.