Roger Lowenstein’s TheEndofWallStreet unfurls a gripping chronicle ofthe 2008 financial collapse, drawing on 180 interviews with top government officials and WallStreet CEOs. Lowenstein looks to the roots ofthe crisis to reveal how America succumbed to the siren song of easy debt and speculative mortgages. Combining deep analysis with sizzling narrative, TheEndofWallStreet charts theendof an era of unprecedented and unwarranted optimism while looking ahead to the legacy ofthe bailout.