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


