The financial crisis has seen the collapse of some of America’s most iconic institutions — Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, AIG, General Motors and so on — a collapse amply documented in a growing pile of books by award-winning journalists, Wall Street insiders and government officials.
With each new addition to the financial crisis library comes a nugget of knowledge, an essential takeaway. In search of this wisdom, The Observer waded through the purple prose, the high-stakes hyperbole and the testosterone-addled atmospherics of Wall Street nonfiction to give you … the Lessons from the Top Crisis Chronicles.
