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From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, "a fast moving, fly-on-the-wall, disheartening look at the deterioration of the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission ... It is a book of superheroes" (San Francisco Review of Books) .Why were no bankers put in prison after the financial crisis of 2008? Why do CEOs seem to commit wrongdoing with impunity? The problem goes beyond banks deemed "Too Big to Fail" to almost every large corporation in America - to pharmaceutical companies and auto manufacturers and beyond. The Chickenshit Club - an inside reference to prosecutors too scared of failure and too daunted by legal impediments to do their jobs - explains why in "an absorbing financial history, a monumental work of journalism .
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Jesse Eisinger is a Pulitzer Prize-winning senior reporter for ProPublica. He is a former columnist for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and the former Wall Street editor of Condé Nast Portfolio. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Baffler, and many other publications. Eisinger was a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2011 and 2015, and the winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary in 2015. He was named a New America fellow in 2016 and 2017.
