The chicken shit club review
“The chicken shit club” by Jesse Eisinger is the latest book criticizing the American department of justice. The book’s title comes from a phrase that James Comey, former US attorney in Manhattan, issued as a warning to young lawyers who only brought to trial cases they were certain to win. Eisinger’s main expression in the book is, “why the justice department fails to prosecute executives.” In this masterpiece, Eisinger gives a fast moving, fly on the wall, disheartening look at the deterioration of the justice department and the Securities and Exchange
Commission. The book has even been called “a book of superheroes” by the San Francisco review of books. This essay will critically review Eisinger’s