Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President
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Wachovia, 113, 207
Wachtell Lipton, 94, 103, 104
Wagoner, Rick, 226, 227, 230–31, 233, 248
Wallis, Jim, 137
Wall Street Journal, 7, 41, 42, 44, 236, 243, 312
Warren, Elizabeth, 4–6, 10, 77–81, 204–5, 300, 311, 312, 343–45, 349, 397, 431, 440, 443–45
Washington, George, 332
Washington Mutual, 113, 167, 255
Washington Note, 375
Washington Post, 214, 380–81
Wasserstein Perella, 135
Waxman, Henry, 371
Webb, Jim, 238, 270
Weill, Sandy, 208–9
Weinberg, John, 425
Weinberg, Sidney, 423, 424, 425
Weinberg, Sue, 425
Weiner, Anthony, 375
Weinstein, Brianna, 320–21
Weinstein, Jim, 318, 319, 320–22, 442–43, 472–73
Weinstein, Mimi, 322
Weinstein, Shelsey, 322
Weld, William, 369
Wells Fargo, 123, 207, 214, 285
Wennberg, Jack, 138–39, 318–22, 442, 443
Wenner, Jann, 8–10
Where Do We Go from Here (King), 29
Whitehead, John, 422, 423–26
Wilson, Joe, 326
Winters, Bill, 413–14, 416, 417
Wolf, Carol, 25
Wolf, Robert, 19–20, 21–23, 24–28, 30, 31, 34–35, 36, 43–44, 59, 62, 85, 87, 93, 98, 104–5, 109, 119, 143, 144, 350, 396, 397, 447–48
Wolin, Neal, 280, 281–82, 304, 476
Woodrow Wilson Center, 14–15
Woodward, Bob, 278
WorldCom, 109
Wright, Jeremiah, 33–34
Wristen, Walter, 426
Wyden, Ron, 213
Zandi, Mark, 313, 363
Zimmerman, Gabe, 468
About the Author
RON SUSKIND is the author of The New York Times bestsellers The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism, The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11, and The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill. He is also the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League. He has written for The New York Times Magazine and Esquire, and is a distinguished visiting scholar at Dartmouth College. From 1993 to 2000 he was the senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal, where he won a Pulitzer Prize. He lives with his wife, Cornelia Kennedy Suskind, in Washington, D.C.
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