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Andrew Ross Sorkin

American · b. 1977

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Andrew Ross Sorkin is an American journalist, columnist, and author best known for Too Big to Fail, the definitive inside account of the 2008 financial crisis, and as a co-anchor of CNBC's Squawk Box.

Andrew Ross Sorkin is a financial journalist for The New York Times, where he founded the DealBook financial news service, and a co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box. He has reported on Wall Street and corporate finance for decades.

His book Too Big to Fail (2009) is the definitive blow-by-blow account of the 2008 financial crisis, reconstructed from hundreds of interviews with the bankers, regulators, and officials at the center of the meltdown. It became a bestseller and was adapted into an HBO film.

Sorkin is recognized as one of the leading chroniclers of Wall Street and high finance, combining deep access with narrative skill.

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Too Big to Fail

by Andrew Ross Sorkin

4.4

The minute-by-minute account of the 2008 financial crisis — from the collapse of Bear Stearns through the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, the AIG bailout, and TARP. Sorkin had access to every major participant and reconstructed the crisis in novelistic detail.

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