Doom books prosper in US

The crisis on Wall Street has been good for books about financial disasters.

According to Viking publishing, 'Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism', sold 5,000 copies in two days.

Other popular titles include Naomi Klein’s 'The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism', David M. Smick’s 'The World is Curved' and a classic from decades ago, John Kenneth Galbraith’s 'The Great Crash 1929'.