Origins of the Crash The Great Bubble and Its Undoing

With his singular gift for turning complex financial events into eminently readable stories, Roger Lowenstein lays bare the labyrinthine events of the manic and tumultuous 1990s. In an enthralling narrative, he ties together all of the characters of the dot-com bubble and offers a unique portrait of the culture of the era. Just as John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Great Crashwas a defining text of the Great Depression, Lowenstein’s Origins of the Crashis destined to be the book that will frame our understanding of the 1990s.

Roger Lowenstein is the author of two bestselling books, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist and When Genius Failed. A reporter and columnist for the Wall Street Journal for more than a decade, Lowenstein is currently a columnist for SmartMoney magazine and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications.