King of the Club: Richard Grasso and the Survival of the New York Stock Exchange

In King of the Club, acclaimed reporter Charles Gasparino, of The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and CNBC, takes us inside the marble-cloaked temple of finance that is the New York Stock Exchange-known to insiders as "The Club"-and reveals never-before-told details of the rise and fall of Richard Grasso, the most powerful CEO in the Exchange's 215-year history. Gasparino shows us: Grasso's desperate race to restart the nation's financial system after 9/11-and how the industry's backstabbing and race to make a buck didn't stop ... even then, The rise and fall of a remarkable Italian kid from the outer boroughs, who fought his way to the top of one of the country's most conservative and chubby institutions, A behind-the-scenes look at the struggle for control over the most central organization in global finance.