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The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves
Viking Adult
November 2009
On Sale: October 20, 2009
624 pages
ISBN: 0670021253
EAN: 9780670021253
Hardcover
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A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in
America’s financial history by an acclaimed New York Times
Reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-
scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest
financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into
a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman
Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the
corridors of Washington, Too Big to Fail is the definitive
story of the most powerful men and women in finance and
politics grappling with success and failure, ego and greed,
and, ultimately, the fate of the world’s economy. “We’ve got to get some foam down on the runway!” a
sleepless Timothy Geithner, the then-president of the
Federal Reserve of New York, would tell Henry M. Paulson,
the Treasury secretary, about the catastrophic crash the
world’s financial system would experience. Through unprecedented access to the players involved, Too
Big to Fail re-creates all the drama and turmoil, revealing
never disclosed details and elucidating how decisions made
on Wall Street over the past decade sowed the seeds of the
debacle. This true story is not just a look at banks that
were “too big to fail,” it is a real-life thriller with a
cast of bold-faced names who themselves thought they were
too big to fail.
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