Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves

by Andrew Ross Sorkin

That debate has seemingly had a huge impact on today’s society and politics. All sorts of explanations have been offered for the stunning election of Donald Trump as president in 2016, but the most compelling may be the simplest: His victory was a rebuke of the “elites” that the public had trusted to prevent such an economic calamity—and it was a rebuke of the same “elites” that tried to help the country recover from it.