The AIG Story: Hank Greenberg and Lawrence A. Cunningham

Hear the firsthand account of one of the great business success stories of the twentieth century and a captivating history of the evolution of global capitalism over the past six decades.

Hank Greenberg, AIG’s legendary CEO of 40 years and corporate governance expert, Lawrence Cunningham, relate the complete, inside story of the rise and near-destruction of AIG.

Greenberg and Cunningham explain how, in 2005, beset by an army of overzealous lawyers and ambitious politicians—foremost among them, then New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer—AIG was seriously wounded. And Greenberg and Cunningham describe how, three years later, in 2008, in an effort to save Wall Street from its own vices, the U.S. Government seized AIG, using it to funnel staggering amounts of bailout money to Goldman Sachs and other “too-big-to-fail” banks.