Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--And Themselves

✍ Scribed by Sorkin, Andrew Ross

• Publisher: Penguin
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 459 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780143118244

✦ Synopsis

Review

"...comprehensive and chilling..."
-_TIME_

"...his action scenes are intimate and engaging..."
-_The New Yorker_

"Sorkin's prodigious reporting and lively writing put the reader in the room for some of the biggest-dollar conference calls in history. It's an entertaining book, brisk book...Sorkin skillfully captures the raucous enthusiasm and riotous greed that fueled this rational irrationality."
-_The New York Times Book Review_

"...brings the drama alive with unusual inside access and compelling detail...A deeply researched account of the financial meltdown."
-_BusinessWeek_

"...meticulously researched...told brilliantly. Other blow-by-blow accounts are in the works. It is hard to imagine them being this riveting."
-_The Economist_

"Sorkin's densely detailed and astonishing narrative of the epic financial crisis of 2008 is an extraordinary achievement that will be hard to surpass as the definitive account...as a dramatic close-up, his book is hard to beat."
-_Financial Times_

"Sorkin's book, like its author, is a phenom...an absolute tour de force."
-_The American Prospect_

"Andrew Ross Sorkin pens what may be the definitive history of the banking crisis."
-_The Atlantic Monthly_

"Andrew Ross Sorkin has written a fascinating, scene-by-scene saga of the eyeless trying to march the clueless through Great Depression II."
-Tom Wolfe

"...Sorkin has succeeded in writing the book of the crisis, with amazing levels of detail and access."
-Reuters

"Sorkin can write. His storytelling makes "Liar's Poker" look like a children's book."
-SNL Financial

Product Description

A brilliantly reported true-life thriller that goes behind the scenes of the financial crisis on Wall Street and in Washington.

In one of the most gripping financial narratives in decades, Andrew Ross Sorkin-a New York Times columnist and one of the country's most respected financial reporters-delivers the first definitive blow- by-blow account of the epochal economic crisis that brought the world to the brink. Through unprecedented access to the players involved, he re-creates all the drama and turmoil of these turbulent days, revealing never-before-disclosed details and recounting how, motivated as often by ego and greed as by fear and self-preservation, the most powerful men and women in finance and politics decided the fate of the world's economy.