Title:
The great hangover : 21 tales of the new recession from the pages of vanity fair
Publication Information:
New York : Harper Perennial, 2010
Physical Description:
xiii, 464 ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
9780061964428
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Summary
Summary
A collection of stories from Vanity Fair magazine about the current financial crisis by some of the country's best business journalists, including Michael Lewis (Moneyball, Liar's Poker), Bryan Burrough (Barbarians at the Gate), and Mark Bowden (Black Hawk Down), edited by Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, and with an introduction by Cullen Murphy (Are We Rome?).
Author Notes
Graydon Carter is the editor of Vanity Fair.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Table of Contents
| Where Did All the Billions Go? | p. ix |
| Part 1 Wall Street | |
| 1 Bringing Down Bear Stearns | p. 3 |
| 2 Profiles in Panic: Wall Street High Society in Free Fall | p. 29 |
| 3 Wall Street Lays Another Egg: Derivatives and Mathematical Models | p. 49 |
| 4 Over the Hedge | p. 75 |
| 5 Wall Street's $18.4 Billion Bonus | p. 91 |
| 6 The Man Who Crashed the World: Joe Cassano and A.I.G. | p. 105 |
| Part 2 Washington | |
| 7 Good Billions After Bad: The Bailout Money | p. 129 |
| 8 Capitalist Fools: Five Key Mistakes That Led Us to the Collapse | p. 145 |
| 9 Fannie Mae's Last Stand | p. 153 |
| 10 Henry Paulson's Longest Night | p. 181 |
| Part 3 Beyond | |
| 11 Wall Street on the Tundra: The Implosion of Iceland's Economy | p. 203 |
| 12 Rich Harvard, Poor Harvard | p. 229 |
| 13 Pirate of the Caribbean: The Mystery of Allen Stanford | p. 251 |
| 14 The Inheritance: Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and the Decline of the Newspaper Business | p. 275 |
| 15 Marc Dreier's Crime of Destiny | p. 303 |
| 16 Wall Street's Toxic Message: Global Consequences of the Meltdown | p. 327 |
| Part 4 The Madoff Chronicles | |
| 17 Part I: Madoff's World | p. 337 |
| 18 Part II: "Hello, Madoff!"-What the Secretary Saw | p. 367 |
| 19 Part III: Did the Sons Know? | p. 397 |
| 20 Part IV: Ruth's World | p. 413 |
| 21 Part V: Greenwich Mean Time-The Noel Family | p. 437 |
| Afterword: The Blame | |
| The 100 People, Companies, Institutions, and Vices to Blame for Getting Us into this Mess | p. 453 |
| Author Biographies | p. 457 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 463 |
