Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the FinancialSyst

“Too Big to Fail is too good to put down… . Told brilliantly.”

—The Economist

  “Sorkin’s prodigious reporting and lively writing put the reader in the room for some of the biggest-dollar conference calls in history. It’s an entertaining, brisk book… . In Too Big to Fail, Sorkin skillfully captures the raucous enthusiasm and riotous greed that fueled this rational irrationality.”

—Paul M. Barrett, The New York Times Book Review

  “The detail is comprehensive and chilling.”

—Time

“Intimate and engaging.”

—The New Yorker

  “Sorkin succeeds in translating a highly complex … series of events into a gripping and intelligible read. Through months of interviews and behind the scenes access, he renders normally stony-faced executives and politicians in three dimensions, affording the reader a rare sense of their real personalities and private conflicts.”

—Forbes.com

  “Sorkin has succeeded in writing the book of the crisis, with amazing levels of detail and access.”

—Reuters

  “Sorkin has pulled off a rare feat. He has turned more than 500 hours of interviews and documentary evidence … into an engrossing fly-on-the-wall account of one of the most tumultuous years in U.S. history.”

—Bloomberg.com

  “The preternaturally ambitious, 32-year-old DealBook editor [Andrew Ross Sorkin] has an insane work ethic in addition to a powerful, high-profile job and a bestselling book. Ever since we read it we’ve been thinking to ourselves: How can we be more Sorkin-like?”

—New York Magazine

  “This crisis has passed, but neither the country’s financial system nor its economy have recovered. [Too Big To Fail] should be required reading for anyone trying to fix—or simply understand—either.”

—Adam Lashinsky, San Francisco Chronicle

  “This moment-by-moment account of the collapse and rescue of Wall Street reads like a novel, exploring the minds of characters ranging from Lehman Brothers’ then-CEO Richard Fuld to former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.”

—Lisa Von Ahn, Reuters

  “The drama of the collapse produced many novelistic moments, but until Sorkin’s Too Big To Fail, none of the several books offered the drama of such earlier classic Wall Street takedowns as Barbarians At the Gate or Liar’s Poker. Sorkin’s book … is a phenom. An absolute tour de force.”

—Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect

  “Gives the reader a front-row view into the day-to-day decisions made by the nation’s top bankers and government officials… . Sorkin’s book reads like a Dan Brown thriller.”

—The Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg)

  “As close to a definitive account as we are likely to get.”

—Dominic Lawson, The Sunday Times (London)

  “Surpassed its rivals with its depth, range of reporting, and high quality analysis.”

—Stefan Stern, Financial Times (London)

  “The most readable and exciting report of the events surrounding the Lehman collapse that we have seen … impeccably sourced.”

—Edmund Conway, Daily Telegraph (London)

  “He has done a remarkable job in producing a lively account that will be hard for subsequent authors to beat.”

—Gillian Tett, Financial Times (London)

  “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, London Evening Standard

  “A superbly researched and sobering take on the events surrounding the meltdown on Wall Street.”

—Sam Mendes

  “Compelling, novelistic, and enormously thorough account.”

—Alison Roberts, London Evening Standard

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Andrew Ross Sorkin is the award-winning chief mergers and acquisitions reporter and columnist for the New York Times. He is also the editor and founder of DealBook, an online daily financial report. He has twice won a Gerald Loeb Award, one of the highest honors in business journalism; once for breaking news and and a second time for authoring Too Big to Fail. The World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader and he was added to The Directorship 100, recognizing the nation’s most influential people on corporate boardrooms. Too Big to Fail has been on the hardcover bestseller list for more than twenty-three weeks.

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