Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of control, even as events spun far beyond what could be managed with any certainty. He could will into being the confidence that eluded others, those less self-assured and, maybe sensibly, on humbler terms with the world.

" On August 11 House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers announced that his committee would look into the matter of the Habbush letter and a variety of other disclosures in the book. S. An official familiar with the administration’s economic policy told me: 'The recapitalization of the banks was a good idea and necessary.

He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for his series of articles in the Wall Street Journal that became the starting point for his first book A Hope in the Unseen. Ronald Steven "Ron" Suskind (born November 20 1959) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist and best-selling author. Suskind is best known for his series of prominent best-selling books cataloging the inner workings of the George W.