A review by moniker
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin

4.0

Well, I’m not sure I can say I enjoyed it. You don’t look at a dumpster fire and enjoy the smell. I do greatly respect the comprehensiveness of the reporting. Intensely detailed and illuminating, this book will undoubtedly be invaluable to historians and economists in 30, 60, 100 years, the same way our scholars today study the Great Depression. These are the folks who earnestly want an answer to the question, “What the heck were they thinking?” For the rest of us, that question is rhetorical. I’d rather know what happened, with an aim to understand how we got here so we can avoid it in the future - which made the epilogue and afterword the most compelling chapters. I could have done without the blow-by-blow.