First published 2011
The credit tsunami of 2002-2008 revealed the true character of nations. Icelanders traded fishing for banking, Greeks cracked open the piñata, Germans doubled-down on German-ness. But when Michael Lewis turns his merciless gaze homeward, the joke's on us - the "greatest and greediest of debtor nations" staring down a reckoning.
Genres: business, economics, non-fiction, 21st-century
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water
Setting: United States, Europe
Period: 21st century, 2001-2009
213 pages · Hardcover · W. W. Norton & Company