Asylum

<p><em>The Asylum</em> 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.</p><p>In the tradition of <em>Too Big to Fail</em> and <em>Liar's Poker</em> 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.</p>