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Zusatztext "This inside account of the Obama economic team contains enough damning on-the-record quotes to give it the ring of truth despite White House efforts to discredit the narrative of infighting and missed opportunities. Read it and weep. It reminds me of the post-Iraq invasion books that documented a similar failure to rise to the enormity of the problem! whether the insurgency was in Iraq or on Wall Street." Informationen zum Autor RON SUSKIND is the author of The Way of the World , The One Percent Doctrine , The Price of Loyalty , and A Hope in the Unseen . From 1993 to 2000 he was the senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal , where he won a Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Washington, D.C. Klappentext In this gripping, revelatory, and brilliantly reported book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Suskind tells for the first time the full story of America’s financial meltdown and an untested new president charged with commanding Washington, taming Wall Street, rescuing an economy on the verge of collapse, and restoring the confidence of a shaken nation. Suskind moves from the frenzied trading floors of lower Manhattan to the power corridors inside the Beltway and introduces a larger-than-life cast of politicians and advisors, titans of high finance, reformers, lobbyists, and others who faced a crisis unlike anything they had ever imagined. Based on hundreds of interviews, filled with piercing insight and startling disclosures, Confidence Men brings into focus the unprecedented struggle between the nation’s two capitals—New York and Washington, one of private gain, the other of public purpose—that continues to divide and roil America. Zusammenfassung AcclaimedPulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind! authorof the New York Times bestselling The Way of the World ! The OnePercent Doctrine ! and The Price of Loyalty ! gives anexplosive inside account of an Obama White House overwhelmed by the globalfinancial crisis—and the political and economic consequences still being felttoday. Readers of Michael Lewis’s The Big Short ! John Heilemann and Mark Halperin’s GameChange ! and Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Too Big toFail will be riveted by Suskind’s illuminating!in-depth investigation of the financial meltdown. Rooted in hundreds of hoursof interviews with key members of the Obama administration! including thePresident himself! Suskind’s exposé offers aneyewitness account of the most momentous events in the history of globalfinance. ...
