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.