A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in
America’s financial history by an acclaimed New York Times
Reporter
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.
關於作者:
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.