The Asylum is a stunning expos by a seasoned Wall Street journalist that once and for all reveals the truth behind Americas oil addiction in all its unscripted and dysfunctional glory.
In the tradition of Too Big to Fail and Liars 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 Yorks stuffy financial establishment, overcame more than a century of failure, infighting, and brinksmanship to build the worlds reigning oil empireentirely by accident.
