Peter Irons is professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of five previous award-winning books. The most recent, A People's History of the Supreme Court, was awarded the Silver Gavel Certificate of Merit by the American Bar Association.
One of the country's foremost young business reporters delivers a thrilling, definitive account of the financial crisis on Wall Street and in Washington.
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