Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking

by Alice Echols

Book Overview

The rollicking true story of a 1930s version of Bernie Madoff--and the building and loan crash he helped precipitate--in a wonderful work of narrative nonfiction by the Gustavus Myers book award winner

Shortfall opens with a surprise discovery in an attic--boxes filled with letters and documents hidden for more than seventy years--and launches into a fast-paced story that uncovers the dark secrets in Echols's family--an upside-down version...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620973030
• ISBN13: 9781620973035
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.3"