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《峭壁边缘:拯救世界金融》内容简介：他曾被认为是美国证券界的“鹰派”，他也自称自己的个性继承于一个一个女强人的血脉；他是个雷厉风行的人，向自己喜欢的女人求婚后，8个星期内就闪电结婚；他是个尽职的人，人们称他是不知疲倦的“牛头犬”，一心扑在工作上的他竟然只能以躲在厕所看《周末画报》为一大消遣。
他就是中国人的“老相识”亨利?保尔森。从美国财政部长位置上退下来的保尔森，以自己的坦诚和勇气，在回忆录中记下了金融危机期间，那一个个难忘的日夜：辗转反侧难以入眠的时候，他甚至想着服用安眠药；在与议员商讨救市计划时，他几次躲在柱子后面干呕；而为了挽救整个金融体系，他甚至向议长佩洛西下跪。
保尔森虽然给人性格强硬的印象，但他也坦承自己在金融危机期间犯下的错误：当雷曼处于生死关头时，他竟然忽视了英国人放弃购买雷曼的警告；他低估了公众对用纳税人的钱救市的愤怒程度；而他推出的一系列救市计划，也常常不是出于详尽的分析，只是出于直觉判断。
保尔森就是这么一个人：他执著、强硬但不乏温情；他怨恨华尔街的贪婪却又不遗余力地挽救它们；他信奉自由市场的理念但却又不得不为政府救市计划四处奔波。
正如保尔森所说，他拯救的金融世界曾处于峭壁边缘，但幸运的是，倔强的保尔森并没有让金融帝国坠下深渊。
作者简介亨利·保尔森（Henry M. Paulson, JR.）： 美国前财政部长，入主财政部之前曾担任高盛集团的总裁。1946年，保尔森生于美国中西部，在一个小镇的农场长大。1964年就读于达特茅斯大学，是美国常春藤名校最佳橄榄球手之一。大四时，保尔森认识了温迪，温迪后来成为保尔森的夫人。1968年，保尔森进入哈佛大学商学院，获MBA学位。尼克松担任美国总统期间，保尔森出任总统幕僚助理和白宫内务委员会成员。保尔森的得意之作，是自1999年担任高盛总裁所取得的业绩。任职高盛期间，保尔森成为美国最有影响的金融高手之一，一度被美国媒体冠以“华尔街权力之王”的头衔。 2006年，保尔森接替约翰?斯诺，担任美国财政部部长。很快，保尔森就面临着一大考验：拯救峭壁边缘的金融系统。
Editorial ReviewsFrom Publishers WeeklyThe highest ranking CIA official yet to write a book about the current war in Iraq, retired officer Drumheller looks back on his 25 years in intelligence to lay bare the Bush administration's push toward invasion and its long-term impact on U.S. intelligence gathering capabilities. Central to Drumheller's argument is the familiar story of the White House's reliance on the testimony of an Iraqi defector (who came to be known as "Curveball") in making its case for war; to that effect, there's much here that simply reiterates the critical chorus that "policy was shaping the intelligence and not the other way around," as do numerous recent Iraq war exposés. More interesting are the glimpses of well-known milestones in the run-up to the war, including a late-night call from CIA Director George Tenet the night before Colin Powell's infamous UN address, at which he presented Curveball's testimony on an Iraqi bioweapons program. With this story and others, Drumheller illustrates how the Bush administration left the CIA scrambling to clean up the ensuing mess when they should have been pursuing new threats: "The biggest difference between the current transition period and those in the past is that we are facing the added challenge of fighting off abuse and being made scapegoats by our political masters." Drumheller's book is a lucid account of the Bush administration's intelligence breakdown, hobbled only by its late arrival to the shelf.
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From BooklistDrumheller is the first high-ranking CIA "insider" to write extensively on how supposed intelligence failures led to the war in Iraq, which he clearly feels has damaged national interest. He retired from the agency in 2005, spent more than 25 years as an intelligence operative, and served as chief of clandestine operations for Europe from 2001 to 2005. Although his high position in the agency certainly makes his account worthy of close attention, it is not clear how directly Drumheller was in the loop as decisions to take military action were made. Still, his assertions are certainly disturbing. While Bush defenders consistently have blamed intelligence failures for the phantom weapons of mass destruction, Drumheller credibly claims that the administration pressured the agency to make the case that the weapons existed and any reports that contradicted that view were ignored. In particular, the treatment of an Iraqi defector who refuted the claims of advanced weapons programs now seems both outrageous and tragic. In a broader context, Drumheller reveals an erosion of the political independence and professionalism of the agency over several decades as successive administrations tried to manipulate and distort intelligence to serve political and ideological ends. Sure to engender intense debate. Jay Freeman
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