"Yanis Varoufakis served as the Greek Minister of Finance from January to July 2015. After being swept into power with the left-wing Syriza party, Varoufakis attempted to renegotiate Greece's relationship with the EU and sparked a spectacular battle, with global implications. Varoufakis's new position sent him ricocheting between mass demonstrations in Athens, closed-door negotiations in drab EU and IMF offices, and furtive meetings with power brokers in Washington, D.C. Consultations and quarrels with Barack Obama, Emmanuel Macron, Christine Lagarde, the economists Larry Summers and Jeffrey Sachs, and others as he struggled to resolve Greece's debt crisis without resorting to punishing austerity measures. But despite the mass support of the Greek people and the simple logic of his arguments, Varoufakis succeeded only in provoking the fury of Europe's elite. Varoufakis's memoir is an urgent warning that the economic policies once embraced by the EU and the White House have failed and spawned authoritarianism, populist revolt, and instability throughout the Western world"--Back cover.

Originally published in 2017 by The Bodley Head, an imprint of Vintage, Great Britain 2018-06

Part one: Winters of our discontent. Introduction ; Bailoutistan ; They bend their tongues like their bows ; Treading water ; Raging against the dying of the light -- Part two: Invincible spring. It begins ... ; Auspicious February ; The frenzy before the storm ; A moment to savour, darkly ; Unmasked ; Whittling our spring ; Merkel's spell ; The right stuff, foiled ; The cruellest month -- Part three: Endgame. Countdown to perdition ; Adults in the room ; Lions led by donkeys -- Epilogue.