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Of the droves of books covering the financial shambles - and scandals - of recent years, most make dour, technical and less than gripping reads. Not so Adam Tooze's masterwork, Crashed, a monumental, single-volume survey of the lead-up to the 2008 economic meltdown and its continuing repercussions today.
Written by an acknowledged expert, from a refreshingly global, as opposed to Wall Street, perspective, and complete with a dramatis personae drawn from a vast international canvas, this riveting tome holds the reader from the very first page and never lets go. Written for laymen - colloquially and well - it addresses the labyrinthine twists and turns of contemporary politics and finance in measured, chronological tones, leaving readers to draw their own conclusions.
A fascinating, if sobering, pre-mortem on an ongoing crisis that will not be helped by either BREXIT or Brussels, and is as slippery as mercury, this makes a gripping counterpart to Michael Lewis' immortal The Big Short, clips of which are teasingly appended.
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Of the droves of books covering the financial shambles - and scandals - of recent years, most make dour, technical and less than gripping reads. Not so Adam Tooze's masterwork, Crashed, a monumental, single-volume survey of the lead-up to the 2008 economic meltdown and its continuing repercussions today.
Written by an acknowledged expert, from a refreshingly global, as opposed to Wall Street, perspective, and complete with a dramatis personae drawn from a vast international canvas, this riveting tome holds the reader from the very first page and never lets go. Written for laymen - colloquially and well - it addresses the labyrinthine twists and turns of contemporary politics and finance in measured, chronological tones, leaving readers to draw their own conclusions.
A fascinating, if sobering, pre-mortem on an ongoing crisis that will not be helped by either BREXIT or Brussels, and is as slippery as mercury, this makes a gripping counterpart to Michael Lewis' immortal The Big Short, clips of which are teasingly appended.
More history book reviews at
bookreviewsandvideos.com/category/historical-and-political-book-reviews
