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This all the media featuring Lawrence McDonald discussing his book, “A Colossal Failure Of Common Sense.”

WALL STREET JOURNAL VIDEO
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WALL STREET JOURNAL VIDEO

Could Lehman Have Been Saved? 7/22/2009
Lawrence G. McDonald, the author of “A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers,” speaks to WSJ’s Dennis Berman about what went wrong …

CAPE COD TIMES - Writing the wrongs of Wall Street
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CAPE COD TIMES - Writing the wrongs of Wall Street

By Sarah Shemkus
July 21, 2009

In the middle of 2006, Lehman Brothers vice president Lawrence McDonald began to see signs that something was wrong at the financial services firm.
There was a slight uptick in the default …

BUSINESS WEEK:- Lehman Brothers: Wall Street’s Titanic
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BUSINESS WEEK:- Lehman Brothers: Wall Street’s Titanic

A former Lehman Brothers insider details the failure of leadership that led to the spectacular sinking of Wall Street’s Titanic

By Adrienne Carter
Editor’s Rating: * * * *
The Good: Insider McDonald delivers a very readable and …

CNBC - Lehman Brothers: ‘A Colossal Failure’
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CNBC - Lehman Brothers: ‘A Colossal Failure’

By: Gloria McDonough-Taub
Senior Editor For Blogs
CNBC: A new book hitting the shelves today is getting a lot of attention. It’s the story of the rise and earth-shattering collapse of Lehman Brothers – a $600 Billion …

FORTUNE - An inside tale of Lehman Brothers’ downfall
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FORTUNE - An inside tale of Lehman Brothers’ downfall

Exclusive first look: A bond trader’s new book, A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, tells how the firm’s leaders ignored all the warnings.

By Jennifer Reingold, senior writer, CNNMoney.com
NEW YORK (Fortune) — They started with a …

WALL STREET JOURNAL BLOG - Revealing the Secret Coup Against Lehman Brothers’ Dick Fuld
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WALL STREET JOURNAL BLOG - Revealing the Secret Coup Against Lehman Brothers’ Dick Fuld

By Michael Corkery, Wall Street Journal Blog
In June 2008, a dozen of Lehman Brothers Holdings’ top executives met secretly at a private dinning club on the Upper East Side off Manhattan to plot a palace …

NEW YORK TIMES - Inside the Meltdown: Financial Ruin and the Race to Contain It
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NEW YORK TIMES - Inside the Meltdown: Financial Ruin and the Race to Contain It

Lawrence G. McDonald, author of “A Colossal Failure of Common Sense.”
A year ago it would have been hard to imagine a book about the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department making it onto people’s must-read summer …