Ron Suskind - Confidence Men 00.nfo
General Information
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Title: Confidence Men
Author: Ron Suskind
Read By: James Lurie
Copyright: 2009
Audiobook Copyright: 2009
Genre: Political
Abridged: No
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Book Description
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Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President
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.
Until August 2007, when 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, and
offers the first full portrait of his tumultuous presidency.
Wall Street found that straying from long-standing principles of transparency,
accountability, and fair dealing opened a path to stunning profits.
Obama's determination to reverse that trend was essential to his ascendance,
especially when Wall Street collapsed during the fall of an election
year and the two candidates could audition for the presidency by responding
to a national crisis. But as he stood on the stage in Grant Park, a
shudder went through Barack Obama. He would now have to command Washington,
tame New York, and rescue the economy in the first real management job
of his life.
The new president surrounded himself with a team of seasoned players
- like Rahm Emanuel, Larry Summers, and Tim Geithner - who had served
a different president in a different time. As the nation's crises deepened,
Obama's deputies often ignored the president's decisions - "to protect
him from himself" - while they fought to seize control of a rudderless
White House. Bitter disputes - between men and women, policy and politics
- ruled the day. The result was an administration that found itself
overtaken by events as, year to year, Obama struggled to grow into the
world's toughest job and, in desperation, take control of his ...
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