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The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System
by Charles GasparinoView All Available Formats & Editions
In the spirit of Barbarians at the Gate and Liar's Poker comes The Sellout, the definitive book on the recent collapse of Wall Street, one of the most dramatic and anxiety-ridden era in national socioeconomic history. In this powerful business narrative, Charles Gasparino, the author of Blood on the Floor and King of the Club,… See more details below
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In the spirit of Barbarians at the Gate and Liar's Poker comes The Sellout, the definitive book on the recent collapse of Wall Street, one of the most dramatic and anxiety-ridden era in national socioeconomic history. In this powerful business narrative, Charles Gasparino, the author of Blood on the Floor and King of the Club, captures how avarice, arrogance, and sheer stupidity eroded Wall Street's dominance, made many of our country's most fabled financial institutions vulnerable to significant new foreign control, and profoundly weakened the financial security of millions of poor and middle-class American families.
Editorial Reviews
Wall Street Journal
“Gasparino describes, in page-turning detail, a Wall Street world of ruthless financial titans.… No collection of courtroom documents will ever tell the story…as well as Mr. Gasparino does.”New York Post
“Gasparino is credited with breaking some of the more titillating tales of Wall Street misconduct.”San Antonio Express-News
“Charles Gasparino sees the guts of Wall Street and the wreckage it leaves behind, day in and day out.”New York Review of Books
The most comprehensive anecdotal account to date of the crisis.... Gasparino cuts his way through Wall Street rhetoric and in the process uncovers in considerable detail how blind profit-making ambition led to the destruction of the markets.PR Week
“Born in the Bronx to a construction worker and a housewife, Gasparino has risen from his working-class roots to become one of the most influential business reporters at work today.”Vanity Fair
“An especially aggressive reporter.”Financial Times
“A tough outsider willing to go to battle with anyone—colleague or contact-in pursuit of the story.”Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780061697166
- Publisher:
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication date:
- 11/03/2009
- Pages:
- 553
- Sales rank:
- 469,703
- Product dimensions:
- 5.60(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.40(d)
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