Too Big to Fail Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780141043166
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 330.9730931
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 600
Weight: 466g
Height: 197mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 30mm