The Mortgage Wars: Inside Fannie Mae, Big-Money Politics, and the Collapse of the American Dream

Notes on Sources

The foundation of The Mortgage Wars is my knowledge and experience from 30 years in the financial services industry and 23 years as a senior executive at Fannie Mae. What made it possible for me to write it, however, was the fact that for eight years after I left Fannie Mae in 2004, I was enmeshed in litigation that caused me to delve deeply into many of the issues and areas that I focused on in this book. My review of hundreds if not thousands of documents during this process was of immeasurable value in refreshing my memory as I reconstructed the situations, circumstances, and events I relate in the book. In addition, in writing the narrative of the mortgage wars, I was fortunate to be able to draw on a wealth of publicly available ...