In 2017, when Julian Fellowes’ new series, set in the Gilded Age in the United States, follows Downton Abbey, After the Ball will provide the backstory to the period.

Blue Bloods In 2005, Morgan Stanley fired chairman and CEO Philip Purcell (with a $24 million golden parachute), as a result of the efforts of the “Group of Eight” retired executives. The group included a former chairman, a former president and the former heads of the firm’s major divisions. When Pulitzer-Prize winner Ron Chernow wrote […]