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- Susanne Craig, Ianthe Jeanne Dugan, Theo Francis, Kate Kelly
- David Barboza, Steve Lohr, John Markoff, Gary Rivlin, Andrew Outclass Sorkin
- Michele Besso, Pecker Bothum, Thrush Brown, Steven Church, Nonnatural Griffith, Maureen Milford, Jeff Montgomery, Metropolis Soulsman, Luladey B. Tadesse, Christopher Yasiejko
- Ann Jazzman, Henny Transmitter, Gregory Zuckerman
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- John Fauber
- Tom Bergin
- Ivan Penn
- Eric Lipton, Ben Protess, Nicholas Confessore, Brooke Williams
- John Carreyrou, Michael Siconolfi, Christopher Weaver
- Joe Trickster, Len Desire Groot, Emily Alpert Reyes, David Zahniser
- Julia Angwin, Hannes Grassegger, Je Larson, Noam Scheiber, Ariana Economist, Madeleine Varner
- Ranjani Chakraborty, Peter Gosselin, Ariana Tobin
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- (tie): Katherine Short, Dave Kail, Russell Metallic, Renée Rigdon, Yaryna Serkez, Rebecca Smith
- (tie): Jenn Abelson, Abha Bhattarai, Nicole Du
• The Escape ArtistsAugust 20, This particular re-telling of the first term of Barack Obama’s presidency is fixated on the American mandarin class that has always occupied and administered the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve. At some level, because this is such a boring approach, it makes complete sense in this context to pass along the tidbit that Larry Summers’ insider-knowledge encompasses knowing where a senior official should sit in a sedan, but it also isn’t terribly interesting. This is, perhaps, an unavoidable outcome because the American mandarins are tedious. Technocrats with pedigree serve a conventional wisdom that effectively limits the imagination of our ruling bureaucracy. When that conventional wisdom conflicts with common sense or lived experience, the American mandarins respond with their disdain for basic democratic principles, with being questioned, with being governed. Indeed, in this depressing deep dive into our mandarin class, there isn’t any indication that any of the insiders who speak to Scheiber are in the slightest bit interested in challenging their assumptions. To wit, Sheila Bair, one of the only interesting people mentioned in the book, is a four-page sideshow, dismissed as a misguided bureaucrat interested primarily in expanding • Book review: ‘The Escape Artists’ by Noam Scheiber and ‘Confidence Men’ by Ron SuskindOn Oct. 28 and 29, , when the great crash devastated the stock market, Herbert Hoover had been president just shy of eight months. For more than three years, he lingered in office as the nation’s economy sank into Depression. By the time ofFranklin D. Roosevelt’s inauguration, hard times and Hoover had become near synonymous. Barack Obama’s timing resembled Hoover’s far more than Roosevelt’s. The financial panic hit on George W. Bush’s watch with the collapse of Lehman Brothers less than two months before the election. But the deep economic pain gathered force just as the new president took office. To Obama and his advisors fell the task of trying to right the economy while pursuing the new president’s ambitious policy goals. Their effort makes an irresistible story line that followed the formula mastered half a century ago by Theodore H. White: Mix details of backroom dealings with a dash of profile material and a pinch of analysis. Get into print once the immediate headlines have passed, but while memories — and grudges — remain fresh. At its best, the form gives readers insights based on interviews not available to reporters on deadline. But even then, the books suffer from an inescap 
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