The Great Hangover by Vanity Fair
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?).
This collection of landmark reporting reveals the people and events at the heart of the financial collapse:
- The Fall of Bear Stearns: A minute-by-minute account of the rumors and backroom deals that brought down the legendary investment bank in a single week.
- The A.I.G. Implosion: Michael Lewis's stunning profile of Joe Cassano, the man whose massive, misunderstood bets at A.I.G. nearly crashed the world economy.
- The Madoff Scandal: An inside look at Bernie Madoff's world of deception, from his closest associates to the high-society victims of his colossal Ponzi scheme.
- High-Stakes Investigations: Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz on the five key mistakes that led to the crisis, and Michael Lewis's unforgettable trip to Iceland as its economy went supernova.
- Wall Street Culture: Unflinching portraits of hedge-fund billionaires, panicked high society, and the bonus culture that fueled the disaster, from writers like Bryan Burrough and Bethany McLean.
Graydon Carteris the editor ofVanity Fair. The American edition ofVanity Fairwas launched by publisher Conde Nast in 1913. Under the stewardship of editor Frank Crowninshield, who assigned most of the pieces in this volume, the magazine was a literary and visual treasure of the Jazz Age and featured an incomparable slate of writers through 1936, when it was folded intoVogueas a casualty of the Great Depression.Vanity Fairwas revived in 1983. Carter has been its editor since 1992.
David Friend, a writer, editor, producer, curator, and formerlyLifemagazine's director of photography, isVanity Fair's editor of creative development.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780061964428 |
| ISBN 10 | 0061964425 |
| Title | The Great Hangover |
| Author | Vanity Fair |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Year published | 2010-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
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