Bethany McLean

All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis (2010)

The financial crisis is an extraordinarily complex topic, and McLean and Nocera grab it by the horns. Sometimes the detail is excruciating, but that's probably necessary, because this book is a serious study. It seems to me that puts it above some of the other books on the subject, which either...

The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron (2004)