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The S&L Crisis: A Chrono-Bibliography

General Books and Articles

Adams, James R., The Big Fix: Inside the S&L Scandal: How an Unholy Alliance of Politics and Money Destroyed America's Banking System, New York: Wiley Publishers, 1990.

Annual Survey Issue, "Financial Institutions and Regulations, the S&L Crisis: Death and Transfiguration," 59 Fordham Law Review S1 (1991).

Day, Kathleen, S&L Hell: The People and the Politics Behind the $1 Trillion Savings and Loan Scandal, New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1993.

DeSoto, Richard J. and Lionel C. Bascom, Bailout: The Bankrupting of America, Danbury, CT: Futura Press, 1992.

Eichler, Ned, The Thrift Debacle, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Langston, E.A. and Stephen Brandt, Understanding the S&L Crisis: A Guide for Beginners and Congressmen, Washington, DC: Squeaky Wheel Press, 1990.

Lowy, Martin E., High Rollers: Inside the Savings and Loan Debacle, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1991.

Mayer, Martin, The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990.

Pilzer, Paul Z., Other People's Money: The Inside Story of the S&L Mess, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.

Pizzo, Stephen, Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989.

Seidman, William, Full Faith and Credit: The Great S&L Debacle and other Washington Sagas, New York: Times Books, 1993.

Sprague, Irvine H., Bailout: An Insider's Account of Bank Failures and Rescues, New York: Basic Books, 1986.

Waldman, Michael, Who robbed America? A Citizen's Guide to the S&L Scandal, New York: Random House, 1990.

Last Updated: June 12, 2023