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See customer reviews on Amazon →An inside, policy-focused memoir that reads like a day-by-day after-action report of the 2008 financial crisis. Geithner lays out timelines, phone calls, and technical mechanisms behind the Fed and Treasury interventions, so what works best is a granular sense of how decisions were made under pressure. what works best is high for readers who want procedural clarity, but the prose leans toward technocratic detail and frequent self-defense, which can feel repetitive and thin on emotional self-reflection.
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As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama?s secretary of the Treasury, Timothy F. Geithner helped the United States navigate the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, from boom to bust to rescue to recovery. In a candid, riveting, and historically illuminating memoir, he takes readers behin...
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Recommended by 7 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Warren Buffett, Memoirs, and Most Recommended Books.
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