“In September 2008 - as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and AIG, the world's biggest insurance company, accepted a federal bailout - Senator John McCain of Arizona, in what was widely viewed as a political move, suspended his presidential campaign and called on Obama to rush back to Washington for a bipartisan meeting at the White House.”

American journalist and author

Andrew Ross Sorkin is an American journalist and author. He is a financial columnist for The New York Times and a co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box. He founded and edits DealBook, the financial news service published by The New York Times. Sorkin also wrote the bestseller Too Big to Fail, co-produced its HBO Films adaptation, and helped create the Showtime series Billions.