Zuckerman does a good job of taking a modern history lesson and turning into an interesting narrative. While the book could use some trimming due to some scenes that do not really drive the plot anywhere and therefore unnecessary, i suspect they are there to illustrate the level of research the a...
I am not so sure how 'outrageous' these stories were, however I did enjoy Zuckerman's biographical sketches of each company founder (George Mitchell, Harold Hamm, Aubrey McClendon, Tom Ward, Chariff Souki, etc), as well as the histories of the various companies mentioned (Chesapeake, Continental,...
THE HOUSING MARKET DIDN’T SEEM LIKE AN OBVIOUS BENEFICIARY OF the age of easy money. As the World Trade Center toppled on September 11, 2001, and Osama bin Laden’s lieutenants boasted of crippling the U.S. economy, the real estate market and the overall economy wobbled—especially around the key N...