In the early 2000s, George Bush was in the White House; Republicans controlled Congress, and Harry Pitt's SEC seemed not to notice rampant financial abuses. Eliot Spitzer, a scrappy New York State attorney general, rose to the challenge. Invoking an obscure state law, he walked all over the SEC's traditional domain, bringing actions against brokers, mutual funds and insurance companies—the analysts scandal, mutual fund market timing, insurance price rigging. It is all here in this handy biography. The book closes with Spitzer running for New York governor, an election he easily won soon after the book published ...