Charles H. Ferguson wrote and directed the 2010 Academy Award-winning documentary Inside Job. 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.
Praise for Predator Nation
"A tightly argued, profusely footnoted and deeply enraged
castigation of everyone involved, Predator Nation 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."—Salon
“With Predator Nation, Charles Ferguson sets out to
finish what he started with his Oscar-winning
documentary, Inside Job. 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?”
—Arianna Huffington, president and editor in chief of the
Huffington Post Media Group
“There is fraud at the heart of Wall Street—deliberate
intellectual, business, and political deception. Charles Ferguson
is in hot pursuit. Inside Job shook up the cozy world of academic
finance. Predator Nation should stir prosecutors into action. And
if we fail to reform our political system, you can say goodbye to
American democracy.” —Simon Johnson, coauthor of White House
Burning and professor at MIT Sloan School of Management
“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.” —Nouriel Roubini, professor of economics and
international business at Stern School of Business, New York
University, and chairman of Roubini Global Economics
“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 Inside Job 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.” —Eliot Spitzer
“A deeply argued call to action from a lucid, impassioned
polemicist.”—Kirkus (starred review)
“Charles Ferguson's Predator Nation 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.”—William D. Cohan,
author of House of Cards and Money and Power
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