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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 New York Times bestsellers The Way of the World, The One Percent Doctrine, and 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 for feature writing. He lives in Washington, D. C. Klappentext The hidden history of Wall Street and the White House comes down to a single, powerful, quintessentially American concept: confidence. Both centers of power, tapping brazen innovations over the past three decades, learned how to manufacture it. But in August 2007, that confidence finally began to crumble. In this gripping and brilliantly reported book, Ron Suskind tells the story of what happened next, as Wall Street struggled to save itself while a man with little experience and soaring rhetoric emerged from obscurity to usher in "a new era of responsibility." It is a story that follows the journey of Barack Obama, who rose as the country fell, offering the first full portrait of his tumultuous presidency. 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. ...
