Roger Lowenstein's The End of Wall Street unfurls a gripping chronicle of the 2008 financial collapse, drawing on 180 interviews with top government officials, Wall Street CEOs, bankers and others. Lowenstein looks to the roots of the crisis to reveal how America succumbed to the siren song of easy debt and speculative mortgages. Combining deep analysis with sizzling narrative, The End of Wall Street reads like a morality tale on the perils of financial hubris and excess, and of Washington's extreme adherence to the deregulatory ethos of laissez faire. From Alan Greenspan to Angelo Mozilo, Lowenstein has the characters that make this the definitive account of the epic financial collapse of our time, and also a unique, perceptive look forward to the legacy of the bailout.