Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the FinancialSystem--and Themselves

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First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2009

This edition with a new afterword published in Penguin Books 2010

Copyright © Andrew Ross Sork in, 2009, 2010

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Insert page 1 (top): Lehman Brothers Holdings; (center): Hiroko Masuike/World Picture Network; (bottom): Scott J. Ferrell/Cong ressional Quarterly/Getty Images. Pages 2 (top), 3 (top), and 13 (bottom): Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images News. Pages 2 (center) and 6 (top): © Corbis. Page 2 (bottom): Brendan Smialowski/The New York Times/Redux. Pages 3 (bottom), 4 (top), and 10 (center): United States Department of Treasury. Page 4 (bottom left): Ethan Miller/Getty Images Entertainment. Pages 4 (bottom right), 7 (center right), and 9 (center and bottom): Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg. Page 5 (top left): Scott Halleran/Getty Images Sport; (top right): Sullivan & Cromwell; (bottom): Magic Photography. Page 6 (bottom): Keith Waldgrave/Solo/Zuma Press. Page 7 (top); Goldman, Sachs & Co.; (center left): Axel Schmidt/ DDP/Getty Images. Pages 7 (bottom) and 8 (top left and right): J. P. Morgan. Page 8 (bottom): Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/ Getty Images. Page 9 (top): Mario Tama/Getty Images News. Page 10 (top): Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; (bottom): Reuters. Pages 12 (all) and 14 (bottom): Morgan Stanley. Page 13 (top): Mark Wilson/Getty Images News; (center): Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times/Redux. Page 14 (top): Win McNamee/Getty Images News. Page 16 (top): Alex Wong/Getty Images News; (bottom): Robert Kindler.

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