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

The first authentic behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression turned into a worldwide tsunami is provided by Andrew Ross Sorkin. The definitive account of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics battling ego and greed, success and failure, and ultimately the future of the global economy is found in Too Big to Fail, which takes place in the corridors of Washington, South Korea, and Lehman Brothers' corner offices.

"We need to put some foam down on the runway!" said a restless Timothy Geithner, the president of the Federal Reserve of New York at the time, to Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson over the impending catastrophic collapse of the global financial system.

Too Big to Fail recreates all the drama and turbulence, presenting never-before-seen facts and explaining how choices taken on Wall Street over the previous ten years planted the seeds of the calamity. This is made possible by the unparalleled access to the actors involved. This true narrative is a real-life thriller featuring a cast of bold-faced characters who themselves believed they were too big to fail, rather than only examining banks that were deemed "too big to fail."