Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World’’s Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink

＂Based on astonishing access inside some of the world’s biggest and most iconic companies, Crash Landing is a kaleidoscopic account of the most remarkable period in modern economic history, revealing--through gripping, fly-on-the-wall reporting--how CEOs battled an economic catastrophe for which there was no playbook: among them, Airbnb’s Brian Chesky, blindsided by a virus in the middle of a high-stakes effort to go public; American Airlines’ Doug Parker, shuttling between K Street and the White House, determined to secure a multibillion-dollar bailout; and Ford’s Jim Hackett, as his assembly lines went from building cars to churning out ventilators＂--

Liz Hoffman is a senior reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where she has covered financial markets, corporate dealmaking, and the machinations of Wall Street since 2013. A native of central Pennsylvania, she graduated from Tufts University and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and lives in Brooklyn.