The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

by Josh Mitchell and Josh Mitchell

Book Overview

An NPR Best Book of 2021

From acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell, the "devastating account" (The Wall Street Journal) of student debt in America.

In 1981, a new executive at Sallie Mae took home the company's financial documents to review. "You've got to be shitting me," he later told the company's CEO. "This place is a gold mine."

Over the next four decades, the student loan industry...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501199447
• ISBN13: 9781501199448
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"