| Funny Money Contributor(s): Singer, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 0618197273 ISBN-13: 9780618197279 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $18.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2004 Annotation: From esteemed New Yorker writer Mark Singer comes this cautionary tale of the Penn Square Bank, the oil and gas broker in an Oklahoma City shopping mall whose collapse in 1982 staggered America's banking industry. Recounting the whole spectacular story and its colorful characters, Singer makes brilliantly (and hilariously) clear what actually happened and why it had to happen in boom-time Oklahoma. Nowhere else did money flow in quite the same spontaneous fashion. "[A] tale of wonderful verve" (New York Times), Funny Money comes to life through Singer's vivid prose and continues to resonate in today's culture of corporate corruption. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Corporate & Business History - General - Political Science | Essays - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 332.120 |
| LCCN: 2004300564 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.70 lbs) 229 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Oklahoma - Locality - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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Contributor Bio(s): Singer, Mark: - Mark Singer has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1974. He is the author of Funny Money, Mr. Personality, Citizen K, and Somewhere in America. He lives in New York City. |