Henriques’s narrative is full of complex financial instruments and institutions. She has sweated gallons of blood to make it readable and succeeded by bringing her characters to life.
Though regulatory history runs the risk of being technical and dry, Henriques neatly sidesteps this problem by anchoring her story in four larger-than-life personalities ... The author’s detailed research and colourful stories bring to life the dogged efforts of New Deal reformers to investigate the wrongdoing, and write laws and rules to prevent a repeat.
