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Too Big to Fail (book)

Book about the 2008 financial crisis

Summary

Book about the 2008 financial crisis

Field	Value
name	Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves
image	Too Big to Fail book.jpg
caption	Hardcover edition
author	Andrew Ross Sorkin
country	United States
language	English
genre	Finance
publisher	Viking Press
pub_date	October 20, 2009
media_type	Print (hardback & paperback)
pages	624
isbn	978-0-670-02125-3

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves, also known as Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street, is a non-fiction book by Andrew Ross Sorkin chronicling the events of the 2008 financial crisis and the collapse of Lehman Brothers from the point of view of Wall Street CEOs and US government regulators. The book was released on October 20, 2009, by Viking Press.

It won the 2010 Gerald Loeb Award for Best Business Book and was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize and the 2010 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.

The book was adapted in 2011 for the HBO television movie Too Big to Fail.

Plot summary

The book provides an overview of the 2008 financial crisis from the beginning of 2008 to the decision to create the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). The book tells the story from the perspectives of the leaders of the major financial institutions and the main regulatory authorities, describing in a very detailed manner their everyday discussions and decisions during that difficult period.

Awards

2010 Gerald Loeb Award
Shortlist 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize
Shortlist 2010 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award

References

Sherman, Gabriel. (November 8, 2009). "The Information Broker". [[New York (magazine).
Reynolds Staff. (June 29, 2010). "CNBC, NYT, Vanity Fair each take two Loeb Awards". BusinessJournalism.org.
Pressley, James. (May 25, 2010). "Sorkin's 'Too Big to Fail' Is Finalist in Samuel Johnson Prize". [[Bloomberg L.P.]].
Ovide, Shira. (October 28, 2010). "The Best Business Book of 2010: 'Fault Lines'". [[The Wall Street Journal]].
Ng, Philiana. (April 5, 2011). "HBO Sets 'Too Big to Fail' Premiere".

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