Andrew Ross Sorkin writes financial journalism and business history about major institutions, executives and crises. Too Big to Fail reconstructs the 2008 financial crisis through banks, regulators, government officials and emergency negotiations, moving quickly between meetings as firms including Lehman Brothers and AIG approach collapse. The book explains financial decisions through the people making them rather than through a textbook account of macroeconomics, so personality, institutional rivalry and time pressure remain central. Sorkin has also written and reported extensively on Wall Street and corporate power, but Too Big to Fail is the defining book-length work associated with his name. Too Big to Fail sits between financial history, business journalism and crisis narrative. Readers interested in Michael Lewis may find a similar effort to make complex finance readable, though Sorkin’s approach is more focused on boardrooms, regulators and the sequence of decisions made during the crisis. Read more Less
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