Summary:
Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true
behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest
financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a
global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman
Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors
of Washington, Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the
most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling
with success and failure, ego and greed, and, ultimately, the
fate of the world’s economy. “We’ve got to get some foam down
on the runway!” a sleepless Timothy Geithner, the
then-president of the Federal Reserve of New York, would tell
Henry M. Paulson, the Treasury secretary, about the
catastrophic crash the world’s financial system would
experience. Through unprecedented access to the players
involved, Too Big to Fail re-creates all the drama and turmoil,
revealing never disclosed details and elucidating how decisions
made on Wall Street over the past decade sowed the seeds of the
debacle. This true story is not just a look at banks that were
“too big to fail,” it is a real-life thriller with
a cast of bold-faced names who themselves thought they were too
big to fail. 作者简介 · · · ·
· · 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 is also the editor and founder of DealBook, an online daily
financial report. 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 named him a Young Global Leader.
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