03.21.10
The Dragon Tattoo
Published on Sunday, March 21, 2010 by the New York Times
Obama, Lehman and ‘The Dragon Tattoo’
by Frank Rich
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/21-1
THE same week that Lehman Brothers collapsed in September 2008, a Swedish crime novel titled “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” was published in America. The book didn’t receive a ton of hype, not least because the author, a journalist named Stieg Larsson, was unavailable for interviews; he had died in 2004 of a heart attack at the age of 50. The mixed Times review appeared in the back pages of the Sunday Book Review. Many more readers were riveted instead by the Lehman article on that morning’s front page: “A Wall Street Goliath Teeters Amid Fears of a Widening Crisis.”