Too Big to Fail

This book is the product of more than five hundred hours of interviews

with more than two hundred individuals who participated directly in the

events surrounding the financial crisis. These individuals include Wall

Street chief executives, board members, management teams, current and

former U.S. government officials, foreign government officials, bankers,

lawyers, accountants, consultants, and other advisers. Many of these

individuals shared documentary evidence, including contemporaneous

notes, e-mails, tape recordings, internal presentations, draft filings, scripts,

calendars, call logs, billing time sheets, and expense reports that provided

the basis for much of the detail in this book. They also spent hours

painstakingly recalling the conversations and details of various meetings,

many of which were considered privileged and confidential.