Too Big to Fail

About “Too Big to Fail”

Too Big to Fail is a nonfiction account of the 2008 financial crisis, presented as a behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment reconstruction of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global event. Drawing on access to the people involved, it moves from the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea and the corridors of Washington, portraying the powerful figures in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego, and greed, and ultimately the fate of the world's economy. The book examines how decisions made on Wall Street over the preceding decade sowed the seeds of the debacle, going beyond the banks that were deemed too big to fail.