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• Bringing Down Bear Stearns

  by Bryan Burrough + Follow

  Vanity Fair | August 2008

  On Monday, March 10, the rumor started: Bear Stearns was having liquidity problems. In fact, the maverick investment bank had around $18 billion in cash reserves. But soon the speculation created its own reality, and the race was on to keep Bear’s crisis from ravaging Wall Street. With the blow-by-blow from insiders, Bryan Burrough follows the players—Bear’s stunned executives, trigger-happy reporters at CNBC, a nervous Fed, a shadowy group of short-sellers—in what some believe was the greatest financial scandal in history.

• The Miranda Obsession

  by Bryan Burrough + Follow

  Vanity Fair | December 1999

  She said she was a beautiful, well-connected blonde named Miranda, and she enchanted an astonishing circle of powerful men–Billy Joel, Paul Schrader, Buck Henry, and Quincy Jones among them–with her flirtatious, gossipy phone calls. But who was the woman behind the voice?

• The Riddle of Everest

  by Bryan Burrough + Follow

  Vanity Fair | September 1999

  Last May, 75 years after the disappearance of famed British climber George Mallory and his protégé, Sandy Irvine, five young Americans scaled the long-forbidden, corpse-strewn North Face of Mount Everest in seach of answers to an enduring mystery: was Mallory the first man to reach the summit? In the wake of the team's amazing discovery, Bryan Burrough tells their story: the clues they followed, the breathtaking realization of what they'd found, and the new evidence of how an impetuous explorer may have met his icy death.