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Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2020
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First Responders is an invaluable review of lessons learned from the front lines of the financial crisis, and a heartening story of dedicated public servants from both parties working together towards a common goal.”—Jeremy Stein, Harvard University
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First Responders contains the stories of the heroic leaders who extinguished the financial firestorm of 2008. The accounts of their experience will be invaluable in fighting future crashes, and in preventing their occurrence.”—Janet Yellen, former chair, Federal Reserve
“Much has been written about the financial crisis, but this book’s compendium of first-person accounts is uniquely valuable. Keep it on your bookshelf. You’ll refer to it frequently.”—Alan S. Blinder, author of
Advice and Dissent: Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide“When the next crisis hits, this is the book to which everyone will turn as the playbook for how to respond.”—Mervyn King, former governor, Bank of England
