Featuring an exclusive interview with the author, "America's poet laureate of
capital" ("The Los Angeles Times") When it comes to markets, the first deadly
sin is greed. In "Panic" , #1 bestselling author Michael Lewis has chosen
several pieces of brilliant journalism to illuminate the most violent and costly
upheavals in recent financial history: the Crash of '87, the Russian Default
(and the subsequent collapse of Long Term Capital Management), the Asian
Currency Crisis of 1999, the Internet Bubble, and the current Sub-Prime Mortgage
Disaster. Among the unabridged selections are several pieces by Lewis himself,
whose writing also introduces each section, as well as contributions from