Borrowed time: two centuries of booms, busts, and bailouts at Citi

A bank for the Treasury Secretary

When failure was allowed (because government wasn't big enough to help)

City of instability

Astor to the rescue

Taylor's bank in an age of panics

The Rockefeller bank

A political "big shot"

A City Banker helps create the Fed

"Our friendly monster" goes global

"Sunshine Charlie" doubles down on sugar

Mitchell and the mania

Did City Bank cause the crash?

Bank for the United States

Walter Wriston and the culture of risk

Not that big, but too big to fail?

When countries fail

The banker who "never made a loan"

Just another perfect storm

Creating the next crisis

The man who knew too little

"Save Citigroup at all costs"

Epilogue.