Innes’s movement away from the mainstream of Cape liberalism and into the Progressive government created some distance between him and his former allies. Icahn is an activist investor who battles major corporate boards, buying stakes in public companies and urging certain reforms. He has a black belt in karate and is a nationally ranked tennis player. Mack’s first job in finance was as a clerk at a small brokerage house during his junior year at Duke, after a cracked vertebra made it impossible for him to continue on his football scholarship. Yet he was not particularly well suited to politics; he was too scrupulous and too measured in his views. Mack earned the nickname «Mack the Knife» for his cost-cutting prowess while managing the fixed income division at Morgan Stanley, and he lived up to his billing at CSFB, where he cut 10, jobs and returned the bank to profitability. She has advocated for an updated Glass-Steagal Act and an improved Volcker Rule to restrict...