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Audible.com's editors have created 12 college courses and required reading for the courses. Course #5 is White Collar Crime.

Audible.com: Our intern Ashley gave us the idea for this feature when she couldn’t stop talking about one of her favorite courses as a criminology major. White Collar Crime focuses on all those bad guys who look totally harmless while running scams of epic proportions. From the original Charles Ponzi, from whom we derive the term, to Bernie Madoff, who took the Ponzi scheme to a whole new level, and everyone in between, this course covers the worst of the worst on Wall Street.

The Books:

Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend by Mitchell Zuckoff
Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald
History of Greed: Financial Fraud from Tulip Mania to Bernie Madoff by David E.Y. Sarna
Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine by Maximillian Potter
No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller by Harry Markopolos
Tangled Webs: How False Statements are Undermining America: From Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff by James B. Stewart
Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals by John LeFevre
The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
Catching the Wolf of Wall Street: More Incredible True Stories of Fortunes, Schemes, Parties, and Prison by Jordan Belfort
Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean
Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised by Katie Hafner
21: Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Frank W. Abagnale
A Simple Plan by Scott B. Smith
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
The Art Forger by Barbara A. Shapiro
Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures by Robert K. Wittman
Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History by Scott Andrew Selby

Do you like the show American Greed? Do you sympathize with the crooks in Ocean's 11 or The Pink Panther? Then maybe this is your course!

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