Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President - Softcover

Suskind, Ron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061430463 ISBN 13: 9780061430466

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2012

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"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"

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0061430463
• ISBN 13: 9780061430466
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528