The hidden history of Wall Street and the White House comes down to a single, powerful, quintessentially American
concept: confidence. Both centers of power, tapping brazen innovations over the past three decades, learned how
to manufacture it. But in August 2007, that confidence finally began to crumble.
In this gripping and brilliantly reported book, Ron Suskind tells the story of what happened next, as Wall Street
struggled to save itself while a man with little experience and soaring rhetoric emerged from obscurity to usher
in "a new era of responsibility." It is a story that follows the journey of Barack Obama, who rose as
the country fell, offering the first full portrait of his tumultuous presidency.