Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Too Big to Fail

Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street

» Andrew Ross Sorkin

Penguin
Paperback : 01 Jul 2010

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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.

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Customer Review: 18 July 2010

Reviewer: J McNeill

'I have just finished reading this immensely satisfying book and cannot recommend it too highly. For a tale of financial woes it reads like a thriller; this is no dry tome. Sorkin tells a lively story of the key players on Wall Street lurching from crisis to crisis in a life or death battle to save the Western banking system. The reader is taken right inside the crunch meetings where our financial futures were decided. If you want to have some understanding of the cataclysm that befell the great financial houses this is the book for you.'

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