By Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner, Henry Holt and Company, New York, N.Y. 331 pages, $30
‘Auri sacra fames,” declaimed the poet Virgil. “O execrable love of gold!” “Reckless Endangerment” tells of the wreckage that unrestrained and unpunished greed in the years leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 caused the nation’s economy and people. Gretchen Morgenson’s muckraking column in the Sunday New York Times has special appeal to lawyers. Collaborating with Joshua Rosner, a securities analyst, she has created a book likewise of significance to the profession.
