It is also very personal when he describes the debates, negotiations, and conflicts that took place with the leaders of Congress as he attempts to mold legislation relating to the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). It is also very personal when he discusses the bailout of Bear Stearns and the efforts to find a buyer for Lehman Brothers. It is also very personal when he is discussing what took place leading up to the government taking over Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) and removing their CEOs. As a consequence, the book is very personal: a co-author would not have kept in the sections where Paulson had to excuse himself from meetings to take care of his “dry heaves ” a co-author would not have kept in the information that Paulson joined a conference call “still wearing the boxer shorts and T-shirt I slept in…” I put so much emphasis on the fact that he wrote the book without any help because this is not what usually happens when someone as important as a Secretary of the Treasury produces his memoirs. Right up front he states, “To write this book, I….” He tells us, that “I have been blessed with a good memory, so I have almost never needed to take notes.” He claims, “I’m a candid person by nature and I’ve attempted to give the unbridled truth. There is no indication, anywhere, that he had any help in producing the manuscript. Henry Paulson lived this book, " On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System" (New York: Business Plus:2010), and he also wrote the book.
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