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Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, - Ron Suskind, 9780061430466, paperback
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- Condition
- Artist
- Suskind, Ron
- ISBN
- 9780061430466
- Book Title
- Confidence Men : Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Business & Economics, History, Political Science
- Topic
- Economic History, General, Economics / General, Public Policy / Economic Policy
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 15 oz
- Number of Pages
- 528 Pages
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The hidden history of Wall Street and the White House comes down to a single, powerful, quintessentially American concept: confidence. Both centers of power, tapping brazen innovations over the past three decades, learned how to manufacture it. But in August 2007, that confidence finally began to crumble. In this gripping and brilliantly reported book, Ron Suskind tells the story of what happened next, as Wall Street struggled to save itself while a man with little experience and soaring rhetoric emerged from obscurity to usher in "a new era of responsibility." It is a story that follows the journey of Barack Obama, who rose as the country fell, offering the first full portrait of his tumultuous presidency.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0061430463
ISBN-13
9780061430466
eBay Product ID (ePID)
125126529
Product Key Features
Book Title
Confidence Men : Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Economic History, General, Economics / General, Public Policy / Economic Policy
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Business & Economics, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
528 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
15 oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
E908.3.S87 2012
Reviews
A searing new book. . . . Suskind has a flair for taking material he's harvested to create narratives with a novelistic sense of drama., No book about the Obama presidency appears to have unnerved the White House quite so much as Confidence Men by Ron Suskind, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has developed a niche in the specialized art of parting the curtain on presidential dealings., The book of the week, maybe the book of the month, is Ron Suskind's Confidence Men . . . . A detailed narrative of the Administration's response-sometimes frantic, sometimes sluggish, sometimes both-to the financial and economic catastrophe it inherited, as experienced from the inside., A truly groundbreaking inside account. . . . Penetrating in its analysis of why the administration's approach to the country's economic ills has been so lackluster. . . . An important addition to the growing library of books about this president., Savvy and informative. . . . The most ambitious treatment of this period yet. . . . Suskind's book often reads like Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest . But the quagmire isn't a neo-Vietnam like Afghanistan--it's the economy., This inside account of the Obama economic team contains enough damning on-the-record quotes to give it the ring of truth despite White House efforts to discredit the narrative of infighting and missed opportunities. Read it and weep. It reminds me of the post-Iraq invasion books that documented a similar failure to rise to the enormity of the problem, whether the insurgency was in Iraq or on Wall Street., The work that went into "Confidence Men" cannot be denied. Suskind conducted hundreds of interviews. He spoke to almost every member of the Obama administration, including the President. He quotes memos no one else has published. He gives you scenes that no one else has managed to capture., A searing new book. . . . Suskind has a flair for taking material he's harvested to create narratives with a novelistic sense of drama., Suskind's account of the Obama administration is a marker of our times. It reveals a President unable to perform responsibly the duties of his high office. . . . Suskind's contribution to this tale of woe is to give us a fine grained picture of Obama's passive place in deliberations., No book about the Obama presidency appears to have unnerved the White House quite so much as "Confidence Men" by Ron Suskind, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has developed a niche in the specialized art of parting the curtain on presidential dealings., My Book of the Year. A narrative tour de force. . . . Journalism like this is all too rare in an ange in which reporters trade their critical faculties for access. And it's even rarer that skeptical reporting is turned into something lasting., A truly groundbreaking inside account. . . . Penetrating in its analysis of why the administration's approach to the country's economic ills has been so lackluster. . . . An important addition to the growing library of books about this president., ;A truly groundbreaking inside account. . . . Penetrating in its analysis of why the administration's approach to the country's economic ills has been so lackluster. . . . An important addition to the growing library of books about this president., Suskind's account of the Obama administration is a marker of our times. It reveals a President unable to perform responsibly the duties of his high office. . . . Suskind';s contribution to this tale of woe is to give us a fine grained picture of Obama's passive place in deliberations., Savvy and informative. . . . The most ambitious treatment of this period yet. . . . Suskind's book often reads like Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest . But the quagmire isn't a neo-Vietnam like Afghanistan—it's the economy., Suskind's account of the Obama administration is a marker of our times. It reveals a President unable to perform responsibly the duties of his high office. . . . Suskind's contribution to this tale of woe is to give us a fine grained picture of Obama's passive place in deliberations., Savvy and informative. . . . The most ambitious treatment of this period yet. . . . Suskind's book often reads like Halberstam's "The Best and the Brightest".But the quagmire isn't a neo-Vietnam like Afghanistan - it's the economy., The book of the week, maybe the book of the month, is Ron Suskind's "Confidence Men". . . . A detailed narrative of the Administrations response-sometimes frantic, sometimes sluggish, sometimes both-to the financial and economic catastrophe it inherited, as experienced from the inside., Savvy and informative. . . . The most ambitious treatment of this period yet. . . . Suskind's book often reads like Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest . But the quagmire isn't a neo-Vietnam like Afghanistan--it's the economy., The work that went into Confidence Men cannot be denied. Suskind conducted hundreds of interviews. He spoke to almost every member of the Obama administration, including the President. He quotes memos no one else has published. He gives you scenes that no one else has managed to capture., Savvy and informative. . . . The most ambitious treatment of this period yet. . . . Suskind's book often reads like Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest . But the quagmire isn't a neo-Vietnam like Afghanistan-it's the economy., My Book of the Year. A narrative tour de force. . . . Journalism like this is all too rare in an ange in which reporters trade their critical faculties for access. And it's even rarer that skeptical reporting is turned into something lasting., The book of the week, maybe the book of the month, is Ron Suskind's Confidence Men . . . . A detailed narrative of the Administration's response-sometimes frantic, sometimes sluggish, sometimes both-to the financial and economic catastrophe it inherited, as experienced from the inside., "Savvy and informative. . . . The most ambitious treatment of this period yet. . . . Suskind's book often reads like Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest . But the quagmire isn't a neo-Vietnam like Afghanistan--it's the economy." -- Frank Rich, New York "A searing new book. . . . Suskind has a flair for taking material he's harvested to create narratives with a novelistic sense of drama." -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "No book about the Obama presidency appears to have unnerved the White House quite so much as Confidence Men by Ron Suskind, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has developed a niche in the specialized art of parting the curtain on presidential dealings." -- The Chicago Tribune "A truly groundbreaking inside account. . . . Penetrating in its analysis of why the administration's approach to the country's economic ills has been so lackluster. . . . An important addition to the growing library of books about this president." -- Joe Nocera, The New York Times Book Review "The book of the week, maybe the book of the month, is Ron Suskind's Confidence Men . . . . A detailed narrative of the Administration's response-sometimes frantic, sometimes sluggish, sometimes both-to the financial and economic catastrophe it inherited, as experienced from the inside." -- Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker "The work that went into Confidence Men cannot be denied. Suskind conducted hundreds of interviews. He spoke to almost every member of the Obama administration, including the President. He quotes memos no one else has published. He gives you scenes that no one else has managed to capture." -- Ezra Klein, The New York Review of Books "Suskind's account of the Obama administration is a marker of our times. It reveals a President unable to perform responsibly the duties of his high office. . . . Suskind's contribution to this tale of woe is to give us a fine grained picture of Obama's passive place in deliberations." -- Huffington Post The Huffington Post "My Book of the Year. A narrative tour de force. . . . Journalism like this is all too rare in an ange in which reporters trade their critical faculties for access. And it's even rarer that skeptical reporting is turned into something lasting." -- David Granger, Esquire "This inside account of the Obama economic team contains enough damning on-the-record quotes to give it the ring of truth despite White House efforts to discredit the narrative of infighting and missed opportunities. Read it and weep. It reminds me of the post-Iraq invasion books that documented a similar failure to rise to the enormity of the problem, whether the insurgency was in Iraq or on Wall Street." -- Eleanor Clift, Newsweek
Copyright Date
2012
Dewey Decimal
973.932092
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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Yes
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