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


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 neverdisclosed 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.

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