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Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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paperback. They were masters of the financial universe, flying in private jets and raking in billions. They thought they were too big to fail. This book gives an account of the most powerful men and women at the eye of the financial storm - from Lehman Brothers CEO Dick the gorilla Fuld, to AIG's Joseph Cassano, dubbed 'The Man Who Crashed the World'. Num Pages: 640 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 460. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2010
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141043166
SKU
KTJ8039306
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Andrew Ross Sorkin
Andrew Ross Sorkin is the award-winning chief mergers and acquisitions reporter for the New York Times, a columnist, and assistant editor of business and finance news. He has won a Gerald Loeb Award, the highest honor in business journalism, and a Society of American Business Editors and Writers Award. In 2007, the World Economic Forum names him a Young Global Leader.
Reviews for Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street
He has done a remarkable job in producing a lively account that will be hard for subsequent authors to beat
Gillian Tett, FT
As close to a definitive account as we are likely to get
Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times
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
Andrew Ross Sorkin pens what may be the definitive history of the banking crisis
The Atlantic Monthly
Sorkin has succeeded in writing the book of the crisis, with amazing levels of detail and access
Reuters
Too 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
Economist
Sorkin can write. His storytelling makes Liar's Poker look like a children's book
SNL Financial
The most readable and exciting report of the events surrounding the Lehman collapse that we have seen . . . impeccably sourced
Edmund Conway, Daily Telegraph
The 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 Standard
Surpassed its rivals with its depth, range of reporting and high quality analysis
Stefan Stern, FT
A superbly researched and sobering take on the events surrounding the meltdown on Wall Street
Sam Mendes
With Too Big to Fail , Andrew Ross Sorkin has broken the Barbarians [At The Gate] curse ... Ross Sorkin's ... astonishing narrative of the epic financial crisis of 2008 is an extraordinary achievement that will be hard to surpass as the definitive account
John Gapper, FT
The heir to Barbarians at the Gate
FT
Gillian Tett, FT
As close to a definitive account as we are likely to get
Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times
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
Andrew Ross Sorkin pens what may be the definitive history of the banking crisis
The Atlantic Monthly
Sorkin has succeeded in writing the book of the crisis, with amazing levels of detail and access
Reuters
Too 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
Economist
Sorkin can write. His storytelling makes Liar's Poker look like a children's book
SNL Financial
The most readable and exciting report of the events surrounding the Lehman collapse that we have seen . . . impeccably sourced
Edmund Conway, Daily Telegraph
The 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 Standard
Surpassed its rivals with its depth, range of reporting and high quality analysis
Stefan Stern, FT
A superbly researched and sobering take on the events surrounding the meltdown on Wall Street
Sam Mendes
With Too Big to Fail , Andrew Ross Sorkin has broken the Barbarians [At The Gate] curse ... Ross Sorkin's ... astonishing narrative of the epic financial crisis of 2008 is an extraordinary achievement that will be hard to surpass as the definitive account
John Gapper, FT
The heir to Barbarians at the Gate
FT