Эндрю Росс Соркин — новинки

В 2008 году экономика США и мира находилась на грани коллапса, а огромные банки, которые еще вчера казались устойчивее древних пирамид, стали рассыпаться, словно карточные домики. Документальный триллер, написанный постоянным корреспондентом New York Times Эндрю Россом Соркиным, позволяет заглянуть за кулисы самого страшного со времен Великой депрессии кризиса американской экономики и понять, что же на самом деле произошло с банками, слишком большими, чтобы рухнуть.

Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson prize 2010 they were masters of the financial universe, flying in private jets and raking in billions. They thought they were too big to fail. Yet they would bring the world to its knees. 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 reviled 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". Through unprecedented access to the key players, Sorkin meticulously re-creates frantic phone calls, foul-mouthed rows and white-knuckle panic, as Wall Street fought to save itself.

A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America’s financial history by an acclaimed New York Times Reporter. Andrew 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 Brothers 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…