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A blow-by-blow account of America's biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression. Drawing on 180 interviews, including sit-downs with top government officials and Wall Street CEOs, Lowenstein tells, with grace, wit and razor-sharp understanding, the full story of the end of Wall Street as we know it. Lowenstein weaves a financial, economic and sociological thriller that indicts America for succumbing to the siren song of easy debt and speculative mortgages.
A blow-by-blow account of America's biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression. Drawing on 180 interviews, including sit-downs with top government officials and Wall Street CEOs, Lowenstein tells, with grace, wit and razor-sharp understanding, the full story of the end of Wall Street as we know it. Lowenstein weaves a financial, economic and sociological thriller that indicts America for succumbing to the siren song of easy debt and speculative mortgages.
Lowenstein, a magnificent business writer, creates an almost novelistic accounting of the all-too-real 2008 financial collapse . Lowenstein has a pitch-perfect sense of the Street's monumental recklessness. Time
[The End of Wall Street] is a complex but imaginative book [Lowenstein] is able to identify the creative instruments of financial destruction with the directness that is all-important to a book like this. New York Times
Think of Roger Lowenstein's The End of Wall Street as a tuition-free class in 21st-century U.S. macroeconomics... The End of Wall Street debunks the notion that no one could have seen the economic catastrophe coming. USA Today
The End of Wall Street is a calm, reasoned, and often witty tour of the current financial landscape and how it got that way. Philadelphia Observer
In the flood of new books about the financial crisis, Roger Lowenstein's is a standout. Lowenstein, a highly accomplished financial journalist, lays out what may be the best explanation yet of the recent crash and as good a prediction as any on what happens next. Barron s
"Lowenstein s strong knowledge of the source material and flair for the dramatic and doomsday title should draw readers who still wonder what went wrong and how." Publishers Weekly
Lowenstein does a great job of explaining in understandable terms that unobtrusively avoids the injection of emotion and politics. Booklist
Over the past year, there has been a steady stream of books trying to make sense of the crisis. The latest, and perhaps the most accessible and even-handed, is Roger Lowenstein's The End of Wall Street." Washington Post
"The End of Wall Street is a good book: witty, well-written, heavily researched and often dramatic. Associated Press/Huffington Post
A veteran financial/business journalist examines the past three years of economic collapse, chronicling actions and inactions from dozens of villains and a few heroes A well-delineated chronicle likely to cause readers to ask who put the clowns in charge of the circus, and why aren t they confined to prison cells. Kirkus
[The End of Wall Street] is a complex but imaginative book [Lowenstein] is able to identify the creative instruments of financial destruction with the directness that is all-important to a book like this. New York Times
Think of Roger Lowenstein's The End of Wall Street as a tuition-free class in 21st-century U.S. macroeconomics... The End of Wall Street debunks the notion that no one could have seen the economic catastrophe coming. USA Today
The End of Wall Street is a calm, reasoned, and often witty tour of the current financial landscape and how it got that way. Philadelphia Observer
In the flood of new books about the financial crisis, Roger Lowenstein's is a standout. Lowenstein, a highly accomplished financial journalist, lays out what may be the best explanation yet of the recent crash and as good a prediction as any on what happens next. Barron s
"Lowenstein s strong knowledge of the source material and flair for the dramatic and doomsday title should draw readers who still wonder what went wrong and how." Publishers Weekly
Lowenstein does a great job of explaining in understandable terms that unobtrusively avoids the injection of emotion and politics. Booklist
Over the past year, there has been a steady stream of books trying to make sense of the crisis. The latest, and perhaps the most accessible and even-handed, is Roger Lowenstein's The End of Wall Street." Washington Post
"The End of Wall Street is a good book: witty, well-written, heavily researched and often dramatic. Associated Press/Huffington Post
A veteran financial/business journalist examines the past three years of economic collapse, chronicling actions and inactions from dozens of villains and a few heroes A well-delineated chronicle likely to cause readers to ask who put the clowns in charge of the circus, and why aren t they confined to prison cells. Kirkus