“Masterfully reported,” according to the Los Angeles Times, William D. Cohan’s House of Cards chronicles the shocking fall of Bear Stearns and the end of the Second Gilded Age on Wall Street, explaining how a combination of risky bets, corporate political infighting, lax government regulations, and awful decision-making wrought havoc on the world financial system. A former senior Wall Street investment banker, Cohan is the author of the bestselling The Last Tycoons, winner of the 2007 FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. His writing frequently appears in the Financial Times, Fortune, and the New York Times.