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Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud
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Product Description NOW IN PAPERBACK The "gripping" (New York Times) and "Hitchcockian"(Publishers Weekly) story of how a nurse, a car dealership worker, and a forensic expert took on the nation’s largest banks A Kirkus Reviews and The Week best book of the year, David Dayen’s Chain of Title is a riveting work that recalls A Civil Action, Erin Brockovich, and Flash Boys, recounting how three ordinary Floridians―a car dealership worker, a cancer nurse, and an insurance fraud specialist―helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history, challenged the most powerful institutions in America, and―for a brief moment―brought the corrupt financial industry to its knees.Lisa Epstein, Michael Redman, and Lynn Szymoniak did not work in government or law enforcement. They had no history of anticorporate activism. Instead they were all foreclosure victims, and while struggling with their shame and isolation they committed a revolutionary act: closely reading their mortgage documents, discovering the deceit behind them, and building a movement to expose it. Harnessing the power of the Internet, they revealed how the financial crisis and subsequent recession were fundamentally based upon a series of frauds that kicked millions out of their homes because of false evidence by mortgage companies that had no legal right to foreclose. As Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi noted: "Chain of Title is a sweeping work of investigative journalism that traces the arc of a criminally underreported story in America, the collapse of the rule of law in the home mortgage industry." Review Praise for Chain of Title: A Kirkus Best Book of 2016 “Chain of Title is a careful documentation of the mortgage fraud at the heart of the 2008 financial crisis. . . If you're looking for a book to read over Labor Day weekend - one that will that will get your heart pumping and your blood boiling and that will remind you why we're in these fights - add this one to your list.”―Senator Elizabeth Warren “Prepare to be surprised, and angry… the homeowners' stories are emotional roller coasters. Dayen skillfully narrates a slow reveal and sprinkles in some lively metaphors.”―The New York Times Book Review “Enraging and enlightening.”―Philadelphia Inquirer “An inspiring, well-rendered, deeply reported, and often infuriating account.”―Kirkus Reviews (starred) “Hitchcockian... Meticulously researched, enthralling, and educational, this addition to the literature of the Great Recession calls out for its own big-screen adaptation.”―Publishers Weekly "Note: Dave Dayen's magnificent Chain of Title is essential to understanding how people became victims of the kind of rigged casino that made the Steve Mnuchins rich…”―Esquire "In the wake of the devastating 2008 financial crisis, David Dayen has become one of the nation's most knowledgeable, astute and important voices in identifying the culprits and documenting the efforts to protect them. His new book is one of the most important yet written on the causes of that crisis, the abject failures of the political class to punish the wrongdoers, and the dangerous refusal on the part of the nation's elite to safeguard against future and even worse meltdowns."―Glenn Greenwald "This is the story, one of its characters tells us, of an unlikely 'crime scene': the real estate courts of Florida, where professional fraudsters greased the skids to kick people out of their houses in order to prop up Wall Street's profits, while judges looked the other way. And, it is the story of a prairie fire―begun by ordinary Americans who brilliantly and courageously fought back when our leaders refused to do so. All in all, it is one of the best books about the law and American life that I ever have read."―Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge "Chain of Title is a sweeping work of investigative journalism that traces the arc of a criminally underreported story in America, the collapse of the rule of law in the home m
