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All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis

September 21, 2011 @ 12:00 am

About the Authors – Bethany McLean is a writer for Vanity Fair and the coauthor of The Smartest Guys in the Room. She lives in Chicago.

Joe Nocera is a business columnist for The New York Times and a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. He has won three Gerald Loeb awards and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2006. He lives in New York.

About the BookThe New York Times bestseller hailed as “the best business book of 2010” (Huffington Post).

As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began. Should the blame fall on Wall Street, Main Street, or Pennsylvania Avenue? On greedy traders, misguided regulators, sleazy subprime companies, cowardly legislators, or clueless home buyers?

According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of America’s most acclaimed business journalists, the real answer is all of the above-and more. Many devils helped bring hell to the economy. And the full story, in all of its complexity and detail, is like the legend of the blind men and the elephant. Almost everyone has missed the big picture. Almost no one has put all the pieces together.

All the Devils Are Here goes back several decades to weave the hidden history of the financial crisis in a way no previous book has done. It explores the motivations of everyone from famous CEOs, cabinet secretaries, and politicians to anonymous lenders, borrowers, analysts, and Wall Street traders. It delves into the powerful American mythology of homeownership. And it proves that the crisis ultimately wasn’t about finance at all; it was about human nature.

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Date:
September 21, 2011
Time:
12:00 am
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Washington
DC United States

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Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera