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a lively account that will be hard to beat' FINANCIAL TIMES, BOOKS OF THE YEAR '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, EVENING STANDARD, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'A fascinating, scene-by-scene saga of the eyeless trying to march the clueless through Great Depression II' TOM WOLFE 'Remarkable.
Through unprecedented access to the key players, Sorkin's award-winning book meticulously re-creates frantic phone calls, foul-mouthed rows and white-knuckle panic, as Wall Street fought to save itself. Andrew Ross Sorkin, the news-breaking New York Times journalist, delivers the first true in-the-room account of the most powerful men and women at the eye of the financial storm - from Lehman Brothers CEO Dick 'the gorilla' Fuld, to banking whiz Jamie Dimon, from bullish Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to AIG's Joseph Cassano, dubbed 'The Man Who Crashed the World'. Yet they would bring the world to its knees, and be forced to fight to save the system - and themselves. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.'Has all the drama of a Hollywood movie' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'The definitive account' SUNDAY TIMES, BOOKS OF THE YEAR They were masters of the financial universe. “When the post-bailout debate was still at its highest pitch, Jamie Dimon sent Hank Paulson a note with a quote from a speech that President Theodore Roosevelt delivered at the Sorbonne in April 1910 entitled “Citizenship in a Republic.” It reads: It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
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