Charlie Gasparino

It doesn’t come as big surprise that Wall Street chronicler Charlie Gasparino’s greatest regret in life was not going through with the Golden Gloves boxing competition he dreamed of as a teenager. Born in the Bronx, and growing up in Westchester, where he first slipped on a pair of boxing gloves, Gasparino burnishes a hard-hitting, “I don’t give a damn what you think” tough-guy image. Look quickly at him, and you might even see a hint of Rocky Marciano staring back at you. But instead of becoming an “Italian Stallion” inside the ring, Charlie chose investigative journalism. As CNBC’s on-air editor, as well as a columnist for The Daily Beast and other publications, the former boxer-turned journalist now prides himself on delivering the inside scoop and throwing haymakers at a hodgepodge of Wall Street miscreants and Washington policymakers.

There’s good reason to believe that Gasparino’s latest book, The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System, will become the definitive book on the current financial crisis and the events that led up to “The Great Recession.” Spanning three decades, The Sellout pulls no punches in chronicling the rise and fall of excessive Wall Street leverage and risk taking, as well as the cast of colorful characters that ultimately brought the U.S. financial system to its knees. It hits bookshelves tomorrow.

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