I listened to this on tape and it took me across the great states of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and ND. It's long. It's very good. I learned a lot about the internal machinations of the post 9/11 moments. I always wondered about Tony Blair and this makes his story more clear.There were s...
Once upon a time, I stumbled onto this book on the bargain shelf at Barnes & Noble. Since it cost practically nothing and looked mildly interesting, I bought it. It went in my TBR bookcase where it languished for years. Oh, occasionally I would pick it up, blow the dust away and read the blurbs a...
The amount of fraud that went on at Prudential-Bache as related by this book is absolutely shocking. Even more outrageous is the fact that so many defrauded investors were "paid back" cents on the dollar through class action suits that they didn't participate in. (Apparently, to opt out of a clas...
This book presents Andy Fastow, Enron CFO, as the principal architect behind the fall of Enron, diminishing the legitimacy of the US financial institution, feeding the CA energy crisis and international problems, specifically in India and Latin America.Fastow created accounting entities which wer...
His office, the Salon Doré, was an opulent holdover from nineteenth-century France, its golden walls adorned with Gobelin tapestries that surrounded the most valuable antiques in all of the Élysée Palace. But on this day, the familiar grandeur barely registered with the French president as he wai...
Ominous pitch-black clouds of Tropical Storm Frances had rolled in overnight from the Gulf of Mexico, dumping sheets of water. Swollen bayous around the city spilled into the streets, trapping cars and buses in swirling torrents. Just past eight that Friday morning in September 1998, Michael Jaku...
The convertible had been available at no extra charge; now he could soak up some Hawaii sun. Herndon hopped into the passenger seat, setting a case loaded with recording equipment on the floor. In a few minutes, the car top was down and the agents were starting the forty-five-minute drive to the ...