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We understand completely:  You want something to read at the beach, but darnit, there’s just not enough good bankruptcy literature out there.  (Well, with the exception of bankruptcy haiku.  But those are just so…y’know…short.)  We hear your cries, and that is why we offer….

Bankruptcy Bill’s Summer Reading List

(If you have other good books to add to the list, please feel free to post them in the comments section or e-mail the title to bill [at] bankruptcybill [dot] us.)

Update 8.10.09: Late addition to the list in a new post today: Liquidated – An Ethnography of Wall Street by Karen Ho.

1. Comic Wars:  How Two Tycoons Battled Over the Marvel Comic Empire — And Both Lost by Dan Raviv – Ron Perlman vs. Carl Icahn vs. Ike Perlmutter vs. Avi Arad for control of Marvel Comics via the bankruptcy process, with cameo by Stan Lee.  (Note: This is Bill and Struck’s favorite, for obvious reasons.)

2. Eat What You Kill:  The Fall of a Wall Stree Lawyer by Milton C. Regan – A true story that reads like a novel (in most parts, anyway) about a big firm bankruptcy lawyer who made some ethical missteps in a large corporate bankruptcy case which in turn led to criminal charges and time in jail.  Terrific perspective on the evolution of big firm practice and an inside look at how corporate bankruptcy cases really work.

3. Courting Failure:  How Competition for Big Cases is Corrupting the Bankruptcy Courts by Lynn LoPucki – This’ll get you good and fired up whichever side of the debate you come out on.  More importantly, you’ll come away with a better sense of how the bankruptcy system works in the U.S.

4. The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors:  Bankruptcy After the Civil War (Studies in the Legal History of the South) by Elizabeth Lee Thompson – (From Amazon.com)  “[A] careful empirical study of nearly four thousand cases filed in three southern federal districts, this book focuses on how the Bankruptcy Act of 1867 helped shape the course and outcome of Reconstruction.”  (Note: Ok, maybe you don’t bring this one to the beach but rather dog-ear some pages and leave it on your coffee table or desk top.)

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