The great hangover
Subtitle: 21 tales of the new recession
By: edited by Graydon Carter ; from the pages of Vanity Fair
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780061964428
Subjects: Recessions; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Financial crises; History
Other titles: Twenty-one tales of the new recession; Decline and fall :; Vanity fair (New York, N.Y.)
Description: Presents a collection of essays commissioned by Vanity Fair magazine on the current global economic crisis by such authors as Bryan Burrough, Mark Bowden, and Mark Seal.
Table of contents: title: Where did all the billions go? / by Cullen Murphy; title: pt. 1. Wall Street. Bringing down Bear Stearns / by Bryan Burrough; title: Profiles in panic : Wall Street high society in free fall / by Michael Shnayerson; title: Wall Street lays another egg : derivatives and mathematical models / by Niall Ferguson; title: Over the hedge / by Bethany McLean; title: Wall Street's $18.4 billion bonus / by Michael Shnayerson; title: The man who crashed the world : Joe Cassano and A.I.G. / by Michael Lewis; title: pt. 2. Washington. Good billions after bad : the bailout money / by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele; title: Capitalist fools : five key mistakes that led us to the collapse / by Joseph E. Stiglitz; title: Fannie Mae's last stand / by Bethany McLean; title: Henry Paulson's longest night / by Todd S. Purdum; title: pt. 3. Beyond. Wall Street on the tundra : the implosion of Iceland's economy / by Michael Lewis; title: Rich Harvard, poor Harvard / by Nina Munk; title: Pirate of the Caribbean : the mystery of Allen Stanford / by Bryan Burrough; title: The inheritance : Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and the decline of the newspaper business / by Mark Bowden; title: Marc Dreier's crime of destiny / by Bryan Burrough; title: Wall Street's toxic message : global consequences of the meltdown / by Joseph E. Stiglitz; title: pt. 4. The Madoff chronicles. Part I : Madoff's world / by Mark Seal; title: Part II : "Hello, Madoff!"; title: what the secretary saw / by Mark Seal and Eleanor Squillari; title: Part III : Did the sons know? / by David Margolick; title: Part IV : Ruth's world / by Mark Seal; title: Part V : Greenwich mean time; title: the Noel family / by Vicky Ward; title: Afterword : The blame. The 100 people, companies, institutions, and vices to blame for getting us into this mess / by Bruce Feirstein.