Description: This breakout book on the financial crisis is Pulitzer Prize-winner Wessel's inside account of the struggle of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his financial firefighters to keep the Great Panic from becoming the next Great Depression.
Review Quotes: "...gives a revealing blow-by-blow account of the recent financial crisis"
--David Brooks, The New York Times
--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."
--Fortune Magazine "... 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 of Globalization and its Discontents