- Political corruption, Politics and government, Despotism, Deception
The financial crisis that exploded in 2008 was only a prologue. The rise, fall, and rescue of Wall Street in the bubble-and-bailout era was the coming-out party for the network of looters who sit at the nexus of American political and economic power.
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Plot-driven, contemporary, classical in form and resolved.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Matt Taibbi
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Scribe Publications, Spiegel & Grau
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385529952
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