Confidence Men

Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a Pr

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Release Date: 09/20/2011
Publisher: HarperCollins
Classification: Nonfiction
Classification: Nonfiction
Series: N/A
Language: English
Format: Unabridged edition
Genre: Business, Politics
Author: Ron Suskind
Read by: James Lurie
Duration: 1386 minutes
Run Time: 1386 minutes
Language: English
Language: English
Audio Library Digital - 9781611204230
Playaway - 9781611204247

Confidence Men

Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a Pr

By Ron Suskind

Genre: Business, Politics

Audio Library Digital

09/20/2011

1386 minutes

9781611204230

Playaway

09/20/2011

1386 minutes

9781611204247

Description:

In this gripping and brilliantly reported book, acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind tells for the first time the full story of America's financial meltdown and an untested new president charged with commanding Washington, taming Wall Street, rescuing an economy on the verge of collapse, and restoring the confidence of a shaken nation. Suskind moves from the frenzied trading floors of lower Manhattan to the power corridors inside the Beltway and introduces a larger than life cast of politicians and advisors, titans of high finance, reformers, lobbyists, and others who faced a crisis unlike anything they had ever imagined. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews and exhaustive research, filled with piercing insight and startling disclosures, Confidence Men goes beyond the headlines and previous accounts, bringing into focus the unprecedented struggle between the nation's two capitals - New York and Washington, one of private gain, the other of public purpose - that continues to divide and r

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One of The Fix's best political books of 2011., The Washington Post

Starred Review. James Lurie is an excellent narrator, light and swift in a fast-moving, well-written narrative., Sound Commentary

Starred review. ...fascinating...Narrator James Lurie offers a resonant, steadily paced performance that conveys the seriousness of this substantial work., Library Journal

A top ten book of 2011. Journalism like this is all too rare in an age in which reporters trade their critical faculties for access. And it's even rarer that skeptical reporting is turned into something lasting., Esquire

James Lurie's relentless narration is gravelly, masculine, and capable...the writing is articulate and polished, at moments the book reads like a spy novel..., AudioFile Magazine

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