In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic
“...gives a revealing blow-by-blow account of the recent financial crisis”—David Brooks,The New York Times“...essential, lucid—and, it turns out, riveting—reading."—Michiko Kakutani,The New York Times“...a tale that’s nothing short of hair-raising..reveals in scary detail how unprepared politicians and regulators truly were...”—Paul M Barrett,The New York Times Book Review“Wessel delivers an engrossing account of Bernanke's improvisational responses to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.”—FortuneMagazine“... so far the most entertaining and most readable book on the financial crisis.”—Tyler Cowen, marginalrevolution.com“...persuasively told and richly reported... It will win awards and inspire copycats.”—BusinessWeek"David Wessel brings his deep knowledge of the Federal Reserve and U.S. politics and economics to a topic that will be studied by historians for decades to come...No one can understand what happened and what did not happen without reading this book."–Joseph E. Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics and author ofGlobalization and its Discontents