Books written by Joe Nocera

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  Indentured: The Battle to End the Exploitation of College Athletes

  "Do you mean if Weber State and Lamar Tech are playing, you're going to televise it?" Byers had asked Rasmussen, according to These Guys Have All the Fun, a history of ESPN by James A. Miller and Tom Shales.

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  A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class

  A comprehensive examination of the money revolution in America since the 1950s examines the acquisition of financial power by the middle class through credit cards and mutual funds, the Age of Inflation, the 1987 crash, and the current bull ...

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  All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis

  Just as McLean's The Smartest Guys in the Room was hailed as the best Enron book on a crowded shelf, so will All the Devils Are Here be remembered for finally making sense of the meltdown and its consequences.

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  Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA

  Indentured tells the dramatic story of a loose-knit group of rebels who decided to fight the hypocrisy of the NCAA, which blathers endlessly about the purity of its “student-athletes” while exploiting many of them: The ones who get ...

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  The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind

  ... lockdown . " And why not ? The word " lockdown " usually re- fers to prisoners confined to their cells after an ... parents lived in Wuhan . " Ordinary residents , including my eighty - year- old - plus parents ... lived through COVID ...

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  A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class

  In this entertaining chronicle, Nocera illuminates how the vision and ambition of pioneers like Charles Merrill, Gerry Tsai, Dee Hock, and Peter Lynch reshaped the American economy and brought the rewards--and risks--of financial ...

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  A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class

  A Piece of the Action is an important piece of financial and social history, and with a new introduction, Nocera’s 2013 critique of the uses of the revolution is a powerful warning and admonition to understand what is at stake before we ...