{"product_id":"predator-nation-isbn-9780307952561","title":"Predator Nation","description":"\u003cb\u003eCharles Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Academy Award-winning documentary, Inside Job, now reveals how rogues with influence have taken over the country and are driving it to financial and social ruin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePredator Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, Ferguson exposes the networks of academic, government, and congressional influence--in all recent administrations, including Obama's--that prepared the path to conquest. He reveals how once-revered figures like Alan Greenspan and Larry Summers have become mere courtiers to the elite. And based on many newly released court filings, he details the extent of the crimes--there is no other word--committed in the frenzied chase for storied wealth that marked the 2000s. And, finally, he lays out a brief plan of action for how we might take it back.Praise for \u003ci\u003ePredator Nation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A tightly argued, profusely footnoted and deeply enraged castigation of everyone involved, \u003ci\u003ePredator Nation\u003c\/i\u003e isn’t just a factually unchallengeable account of how Wall Street blew up the global economy. It’s a denunciation, a call for justice and a warning.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSalon\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With\u003ci\u003e Predator Nation,\u003c\/i\u003e Charles Ferguson sets out to finish what he started with his Oscar-winning documentary,\u003ci\u003e Inside Job.\u003c\/i\u003e This take-no-prisoners account of the financial crisis follows the money, connects the dots, names names, and asks the questions our leaders still refuse to answer: how have those responsible for the crisis not been held accountable, and how can we make sure it doesn’t happen again?” —\u003cb\u003eArianna Huffington\u003c\/b\u003e, president and editor in chief of the Huffington Post Media Group \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“There is fraud at the heart of Wall Street—deliberate intellectual, business, and political deception. Charles Ferguson is in hot pursuit. \u003ci\u003eInside Job\u003c\/i\u003e shook up the cozy world of academic finance. \u003ci\u003ePredator Nation\u003c\/i\u003e should stir prosecutors into action. And if we fail to reform our political system, you can say goodbye to American democracy.” —\u003cb\u003eSimon Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eWhite House Burning\u003c\/i\u003e and professor at MIT Sloan School of Management\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Ferguson presents a fierce indictment of predatory activities of parts of the financial system and of the corruption of democracy that ‘big money’ financial lobbying has caused. A book well worth reading regardless of whether you fully agree or not with all of its arguments.” —\u003cb\u003eNouriel Roubini\u003c\/b\u003e, professor of economics and international business at Stern School of Business, New York University, and chairman of Roubini Global Economics\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“The definitive financial crisis book has now been written. With an encyclopedic factual foundation to support his arguments, the ever-brilliant Charles Ferguson has given us \u003ci\u003eInside Job\u003c\/i\u003e on steroids. The collusion between Wall Street and Washington that brought our economy to its knees is set out in a way that will have steam coming out of your ears in fury.” —\u003cb\u003eEliot Spitzer\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A deeply argued call to action from a lucid, impassioned polemicist.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Charles Ferguson's \u003ci\u003ePredator Nation\u003c\/i\u003e is nothing less than a devastating narrative portrait of the many times Wall Street has made Main Street and others the victims of its predatory schemes. In his inimitable clear-headed style, Ferguson correctly asks, why do they keep getting away with it? Why indeed.”—\u003cb\u003eWilliam D. Cohan\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eHouse of Cards\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMoney and Power\u003c\/i\u003eCharles H. Ferguson wrote and directed the 2010 Academy Award-winning documentary \u003ci\u003eInside Job\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley and holds a Ph.D. in political science from MIT. A visiting scholar and lecturer at MIT and Berkeley, he has also been a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has written four books, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a director of the French-American Foundation.Director of the Academy Award-Winning Film Inside Job","brand":"Crown Currency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304276283621,"sku":"NP9780307952561","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780307952561.jpg?v=1767735057","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/predator-nation-isbn-9780307952561","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}