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Lawrence G. McDonald
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February 17, 1966
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About this author
It was just about a year ago, mid October 2008. New York Times #1 Best Selling Author, Patrick Robinson and I were under way, putting our project in first gear. 173, seventeen hour days later, including Christmas Eve and Day (ditto on New Years) we finished. But I will never ever forget Sunday evening September 14, 2008. That was the night a broken man in tears decided to write "A Colossal Fail...
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A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
by Lawrence G. McDonald (Goodreads Author), Patrick Robinson    3.76 avg rating — 411 ratings
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I enjoyed it. I particularly liked reading about the efforts the author went through to get to wall street. It gives some great perspective as to what was going on behind the scenes leading up to lehman's failure.
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The book gives a quite thorough account on the circumstances leading to the 2007 Wall Street crisis. It should have been a quarter of its length though. It becomes quite evident that the author and former pork chop salesman Lawrence G. McDonald wa...
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A fascinating insider's tale from before the onset of the financial collapse. I enjoyed this intriguing interior view of a complex yet overtly foolish groupthink failure.
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"James, 4 members of the Lehman Brothers executive committee helped me write this book. Not to mention Larry McCarthy who was on the risk committee. St...more
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"Tell a friend, we're Now Translated in 12 Languages! The Lehman Book, A Colossal Failure of Common Sense
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