Too Big to Fail

Andew Ross Sorkin is the author of Too Big to Fail, which chronicled the 2008 financial crisis and won the 2010 Gerald Loeb Award for Best Business Book, and was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize and the 2010 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. Sorkin is a long-time journalist at The New York Times, the creator of DealBook, the New York Times's DealBook conference, and the TV drama Billions, and a television correspondent for CNBC's Squawk Box.

He has done a remarkable job in producing a lively account that will be hard for subsequent authors to beat Gillian Tett, FT As close to a definitive account as we are likely to get Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times 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 Andrew Ross Sorkin pens what may be the definitive history of the banking crisis The Atlantic Monthly Sorkin has succeeded in writing the book of the crisis, with amazing levels of detail and access Reuters Too good to put down ... It is the story of the actors in the most extraordinary financial spectacle in 80 years, and it is told brilliantly ... It is hard to imagine them being this riveting Economist Sorkin can write. His storytelling makes Liar's Poker look like a children's book SNL Financial The most readable and exciting report of the events surrounding the Lehman collapse that we have seen ... impeccably sourced Edmund Conway, Daily Telegraph The sense of being in the meeting rooms as hitherto all-conquering alpha male egos fight for their reputations, as their and our world judders, is palpable Chris Blackhurst, Evening Standard Surpassed its rivals with its depth, range of reporting and high quality analysis Stefan Stern, FT A superbly researched and sobering take on the events surrounding the meltdown on Wall Street Sam Mendes With Too Big to Fail , Andrew Ross Sorkin has broken the Barbarians [At The Gate] curse ... Ross Sorkin's ... astonishing narrative of the epic financial crisis of 2008 is an extraordinary achievement that will be hard to surpass as the definitive account John Gapper, FT The heir to Barbarians at the Gate FT