Too Big to Fail The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves

Andrew Ross Sorkin

eBook - 2010

NEW YORK TIMES BESTELLER • The definitive account of the 2008 economic crisis, from the award-winning financial columnist and founder of DealBook, with unparalleled behind-the-scenes access to the key players on Wall Street and in Washington “Too Big to Fail is too good to put down. . . . It is the story of the actors in the most extraordinary financial spectacle in [over] 80 years, and it is told brilliantly.” —The Economist NOW AN HBO FILMOne of the most gripping financial stories in decades, Too Big to Fail delivers a blow-by-blow account of the epochal economic crisis that brought the world to the brink. Through unprecedented access to the players involved, Andrew Ross Sorkin re-creates all the drama and turmoil of those turbule...nt days, revealing never-before-disclosed details and recounting how—motivated as often by ego and greed as by fear and... more