Wizard of Lies Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust

Name: Wizard of Lies Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust
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ISBN: 9781250007438

ISBN-10: 1250007437

ISBN-13: 9781250007438

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Authors: Diana B. Henriques

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"An impressive, meticulously reported postmortem. . . .The Wizard of Liesis the definitive book on what Madoff did and how he did it."—Bloomberg BusinessweekWho is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history?This question has fascinated people ever since the news broke about the New York financier who swindled his friends, relatives, and other investors out of $65 billion. And inThe Wizard of Lies,Diana B. Henriques ofThe New York Timeshas written the definitive book on the man and his scheme, drawing on unprecedented access and more than one hundred interviews, including Bernie Madoff’s first interviews for publication since his arrest. Henriques also…

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List price: $19.50
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 5/8/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

Diana B. Henriquesis the author ofThe White Sharks of Wall StreetandFidelity’s World. She is a senior financial writer forThe New York Times, having joined theTimesstaff in 1989. A Polk Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist, she has won several awards for her work on the Times’s coverage of the Madoff scandal and was part of the team recognized as a Pulitzer finalist for its coverage of the financial crisis of 2008. She lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.



Cast of Characters


Prologue



An Earthquake on Wall Street



Becoming Bernie



The Hunger for Yield



The Big Four



The Cash Spigot



What they Wanted to Believe



Warning Signs



A Near-Death Experience



Madoff's World



The Year of Living Dangerously



Waking Up in the Rubble



Reckoning the Damage



Net Winners and Net Losers



The Sins of the Father



The Wheels of Justice



Hope, Lost and Found



The Long Road Forward


Epilogue


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index