One of CNBC's top reporters, Charlie Gasparino, takes apart the financial world following the meltdown of 2008 in his latest book, The Sellout. Gasparino takes you through, in breathtaking detail, the ruthless world of wall street leading upto the biggest financial disaster in generations.

From critically acclaimed investigative journalist and CNBC personality Charles Gasparino comes a sweeping examination of the most recent volatile, anxiety-ridden era in our nation's socioeconomic history. The Sellout traces the implosion of the financial services business back to its roots in the late 1970s when Wall Street embraced a new business model predicated on taking enormous risks.

It shows how a backwater business involving the trading of risky bonds packed with mortgages showered countless billions in profits on the financial industry but sowed the seeds of its ultimate demise. Gasparino walks readers through Wall Street's three-decades' love affair with risk, revealing a trail of culpability—from the government bureaucrats who crafted housing policies that encouraged homeownership, to the Wall Street firms that underwrote and invested in risky debt, to the mortgage sellers who handed out loans to people without the financial wherewithal to pay them back, to the homeowners who became convinced they could afford mansions on blue-collar wages.

The ongoing tumult in financial markets and the global economy began when some of our most esteemed financial institutions, our government, and even average citizens abdicated their collective responsibilities, eventually selling out investors and selling off the American Dream itself.

In the spirit of classics such as Barbarians at the Gate and Liar's Poker, this page-turning narrative captures how avarice, arrogance, and sheer stupidity eroded Wall Street's dominance and profoundly weakened the financial security of millions of middle-class Americans. Eye-opening and engrossing, The Sellout provides the most thorough investigation to date of this latest gilded era.

Charles Gasparino is an on-air editor for CNBC, a columnist for the Daily Beast and the New York Post, and a freelance writer for Forbes and other publications. He previously wrote for Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal, where he covered issues on Wall Street, including pension funds, mutual funds, and regulatory issues. Gasparino has won numerous business journalism awards, and he is the author of Blood on the Street, which was a BusinessWeek bestseller and was listed by Barron's as one of the best business books of 2005, and King of the Club, which was named one of the best business books of 2007 by Library Journal.

"An especially aggressive reporter." (Vanity Fair )

"A tough outsider willing to go to battle with anyone--colleague or contact-in pursuit of the story." (Financial Times )

"Gasparino is credited with breaking some of the more titillating tales of Wall Street misconduct." (New York Post )

"Gasparino has consistently broken news on some of the biggest financial scandals of recent years, including the fall of Martha Stewart, Henry Blodget, and Jack Grubman. As anyone who reads the business pages knows, Charlie is one of the best reporters in the field." (Mark Whitaker, former editor, Newsweek )

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The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System

Author: Charles Gasparino
Publisher: HarperBusiness
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