Synopsis
The Asylum is a stunning exposé by a seasoned Wall Street journalist that once and for all reveals the truth behind America’s oil addiction in all its unscripted and dysfunctional glory.
In the tradition of Too Big to Fail and Liar’s Poker, author Leah McGrath Goodman tells the amazing-but-true story of a band of struggling, hardscrabble traders who, after enduring decades of scorn from New York’s stuffy financial establishment, overcame more than a century of failure, infighting, and brinksmanship to build the world’s reigning oil empire—entirely by accident.
About Leah McGrath Goodman
See more books from this AuthorThe repeated assertion that the Nymex traders influence oil prices more than oil-producing nations or national governments suggests that Goodman is inflating the importance of her subject.
| Read Full Review of The Asylum: The Renegades Who...What should be a quasi-public utilityâthe market exchange where oil and gas are tradedâis actually a madhouse of vice, vendettas, and corrupt crypto-capitalism, according to this breathless account of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Dec 20 2010 | Read Full Review of The Asylum: The Renegades Who...At one particularly good party at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, traders drank enough Cristal champagne that the managers were persuaded to move Jon Bon Jovi to another table—likely the social apex of the entire oil trading profession.
Feb 17 2011 | Read Full Review of The Asylum: The Renegades Who...When Lana returns to take the Sister from Briarcliff, he tells her Sister Jude hanged herself, and shows the death certificate as proof.
Nov 16 2012 | Read Full Review of The Asylum: The Renegades Who...And why does the monsignor not stand up to Arden, especially when Arden feeds him nonsense like, “All in the name of progress… Briarcliff is a receptacle for human waste…These patients came to me less than men, and now they’re more than human.
Nov 23 2012 | Read Full Review of The Asylum: The Renegades Who...An aggregated and normalized score based on 47 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes