Martin Vander Weyer, in the Telegraph's Seven magazine (no online version), writes that Meltdown is the "most accessible... and the most moralistic" of a rush of books explaining the crisis. "A northerner with a touch of the nonconformist preacher about him, Mason believes the triumph of unfettered capitalism was 'utterly transitory'."
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04/23/2009
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