Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Sa...

<b>Brand New for 2018: an updated edition featuring a new afterword to mark the 10th anniversary of the financial crisis</b><br /><b> </b><br /><b>The brilliantly reported <i>New York Times </i>bestseller that goes behind the scenes of the financial crisis on Wall Street and in Washington to give the definitive account of the crisis, the basis for the HBO film</b><br /><b> </b><br /><b>“<i>Too Big To Fail </i>is too good to put down. . . . It is the story of the actors in the most extraordinary financial spectacle in 80 years, and it is told brilliantly.” —The Economist</b><br /><b> </b><br />In one of the most gripping financial narratives in decades, Andrew Ross Sorkin—a <i>New York Times</i> columnist and one of the country's most respected financial reporters—delivers the first definitive blow-by-blow account of the epochal economic crisis that brought the world to the brink. Through unprecedented access to the players involved, he re-creates all the drama and turmoil of these turbulent days, revealing never-before-disclosed details and recounting how, motivated as often by ego and greed as by fear and self-preservation, the most powerful men and women in finance and politics decided the fate of the world's economy.