The Sellout
How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System
Charles Gasparino • Harper Collins • $27.99

The publisher calls it “the definitive book on the recent collapse of Wall Street, one of the most dramatic and anxiety-ridden eras” in U.S. history. CNBC reporter and author of Blood on the Floor and King of the Club, traces the implosion of the financial services business to the late 1970s, when he says Wall Street embraced a new business model predicated on taking enormous risks.

Too Big to Fail
The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System – and Themselves
Andrew Ross Sorkin • Penguin • $32.95

The publisher calls it a “real life thriller’ that provides “the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami.”  Sorkin is an award-winning chief mergers-and-acquisitions reporter for The New York Times, where he also writes a column and serves as assistant editor of business and finance news