Too Big to Fail (book)

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves, also known as Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street, is a non-fiction book by Andrew Ross Sorkin chronicling the events of the 2008 financial crisis and the collapse of Lehman Brothers from the point of view of Wall Street CEOs and US government regulators. The book was released on October 20, 2009, by Viking Press.

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves
Hardcover edition
AuthorAndrew Ross Sorkin
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreFinance
PublisherViking Press
Publication date
October 20, 2009
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages624
ISBN978-0-670-02125-3

It won the 2010 Gerald Loeb Award for Best Business Book, and was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize and the 2010 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.

The book was adapted in 2011 for the HBO television movie Too Big to Fail.

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