Too Big to Fail

“Comprehensive and chilling.”—Time “… His action scenes are intimate and engaging.” —The New Yorker “Sorkin’s prodigious reporting and lively writing put the reader in the room for some of the biggest-dollar conference calls in history. It’s an entertaining book, brisk book … Sorkin skillfully captures the raucous enthusiasm and riotous greed that fueled this rational irrationality.”—The New York Times Book Review “Brings the drama alive with unusual inside access and compelling detail … A deeply researched account of the financial meltdown.” —BusinessWeek “Meticulously researched … told brilliantly. Other blow-by-blow accounts are in the works. It is hard to imagine them being this riveting.”—The Economist “Sorkin’s densely detailed and astonishing narrative of the epic financial crisis of 2008 is an extraordinary achievement that will be hard to surpass as the definitive account … as a dramatic close-up, his book is hard to beat.”—Financial Times “Sorkin’s book, like its author, is a phenom … an absolute tour de force.”—The American Prospect “Andrew Ross Sorkin pens what may be the definitive history of the banking crisis.”—The Atlantic Monthly “Andrew Ross Sorkin has written a fascinating, scene-by-scene saga of the eyeless trying to march the clueless through Great Depression II.”—Tom Wolfe “Sorkin has succeeded in writing the book of the crisis, with amazing levels of detail and access.” —Reuters “Sorkin can write. His storytelling makes Liar’s Poker look like a children’s book.”—SNL Financial

Andrew Ross Sorkin is an award-winning journalist for The New York Times and a co-anchor of Squawk Box, CNBC’s signature morning program. He is also the founder and editor-at-large of DealBook, an online daily financial report published by The New York Times that he started in 2001. Sorkin is the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail and the co-producer of the 2011 film adaptation, which was nominated for eleven Emmy Awards. Sorkin is also co-creator of the drama series Billions on Showtime.