Showing Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin

HardCover. Pub Date: October 2009 Pages: 600 Publisher: penguin A real-life withthriller about the MOST tumultuous period in History of America's Financial by an acclaimed New York Times ReporterAndrew 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 others 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 th...