The financial crisis is an extraordinarily complex topic, and McLean and Nocera grab it by the horns. Sometimes the detail is excruciating, but that's probably necessary, because this book is a serious study. It seems to me that puts it above some of the other books on the subject, which either...
There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President's Men gave readers the full story, with all the drama and nuance and exclusive reporting. And thirty years later, if you're going to read only one book on Watergate, that's still the one. Today, Enron is the biggest business s...