Bernie Madoff and the Crisis: The Public Trial of Capitalism

by Colleen P. Eren

Book Overview

Bernie Madoff's arrest could not have come at a more darkly poetic moment. Economic upheaval had plunged America into a horrid recession. Then, on December 11, 2008, Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme came to light. A father turned in by his sons; a son who took his own life; another son dying and estranged from his father; a woman at the center of a storm-Madoff's story was a media magnet, voraciously consumed by a justice-seeking public.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503602729
• ISBN13: 9781503602724
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"