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Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street
Author(s): Andrew Ross Sorkin (Author)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Publication Date: 1 July 2010
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 640 pages
- ISBN-10: 0141043164
- ISBN-13: 9780141043166
Book Description
The era-defining international bestseller – the definitive account of the global financial crash
‘Has all the drama of a Hollywood movie’ Daily Telegraph
‘The definitive account’ Sunday Times, Books of the Year
They were masters of the financial universe, flying in private jets and raking in billions. They thought they were too big to fail. Yet they would bring the world to its knees.
Andrew Ross Sorkin, the news-breaking New York Times journalist, delivers the first true in-the-room account of the most powerful men and women at the eye of the financial storm – from reviled Lehman Brothers CEO Dick ‘the gorilla’ Fuld, to banking whiz Jamie Dimon, from bullish Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to AIG’s Joseph Cassano, dubbed ‘The Man Who Crashed the World’.
Through unprecedented access to the key players, Sorkin meticulously re-creates frantic phone calls, foul-mouthed rows and white-knuckle panic, as Wall Street fought to save itself.
Editorial Reviews
Review
As close to a definitive account as we are likely to get ―
Dominic Lawson, Sunday TimesAndrew Ross Sorkin has written a fascinating, scene-by-scene saga of the eyeless trying to march the clueless through Great Depression II ―
Tom WolfeAndrew Ross Sorkin pens what may be the definitive history of the banking crisis ―
The Atlantic MonthlySorkin has succeeded in writing
the book of the crisis, with amazing levels of detail and access ― ReutersToo good to put down . . . It is the story of the actors in the most extraordinary financial spectacle in 80 years, and it is told brilliantly . . . It is hard to imagine them being this riveting ―
EconomistSorkin can write. His storytelling makes
Liar’s Poker look like a children’s book ― SNL FinancialThe most readable and exciting report of the events surrounding the Lehman collapse that we have seen . . . impeccably sourced ―
Edmund Conway, Daily TelegraphThe sense of being in the meeting rooms as hitherto all-conquering alpha male egos fight for their reputations, as their and our world judders, is palpable ―
Chris Blackhurst, Evening StandardSurpassed its rivals with its depth, range of reporting and high quality analysis ―
Stefan Stern, FTAbout the Author
Andew Ross Sorkin is the author of Too Big to Fail, which chronicled the 2008 financial crisis and won the 2010 Gerald Loeb Award for Best Business Book, and was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize and the 2010 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. Sorkin is a long-time journalist at The New York Times, the creator of DealBook, the New York Times’s DealBook conference, and the TV drama Billions, and a television correspondent for CNBC’s Squawk Box.
