Mark W. Geiger

"Geiger explains how inside players created crises from financial innovations, historically and recently. All outsiders should read this before the next crisis!"

"One of the finest monographs on the Civil War I have read in twenty-five years."

"The analysis reveals the unchanging and peculiarly amoral culture of market insiders with remarkable clarity and insight."

"Provides a provocative new perspective that historians will find impossible to ignore."