#19 in Business
Too Big to Fail
- 600
- Pages
- about 11 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 0 weeks on the list
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Our view
“Too Big to Fail” is a gripping inside account of the 2008 financial crisis. Andrew Ross Sorkin follows Wall Street chief executives and Washington regulators through the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the scramble to save the system. Some readers find all six hundred pages as absorbing as a novel. A strong choice for anyone who wants to see how the crisis was handled, and by whom.
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About the book
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves, also known as Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street, is a non-fiction book by Andrew Ross Sorkin chronicling the events of the 2008 financial crisis and the collapse of Lehman Brothers from the point of view of Wall Street CEOs and US government regulators. The book was released on October 20, 2009, by Viking Press.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.2 across 86 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 37% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Business average of 7.9. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 13 | 15% |
| Hardcover | 8.3 | 73 | 85% |
Frequently asked
How long is Too Big to Fail?
It has 600 pages — longer than 91% of the ranked books in Business.
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