cover image Belly Up: The Collapse of the Penn Square Bank

Belly Up: The Collapse of the Penn Square Bank

Phillip L. Zweig. Ballantine Books, $27 (524pp) ISBN 978-0-449-90205-9

Wall Street Journal reporter Zweig details how the Oklahoma City Penn Square Bank went under. PW recommended Mark Singer's account of the same events in Funny Money unless ""the reader's appetite is for unembellished facts, presented in plain prose, of events that are of themselves exciting.''(September)