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