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1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History
- Great Depression
- stock market crash
- Wall Street
- bubbles
- financial history
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Why I'd hand it to you
Andrew Ross Sorkin, who wrote Too Big to Fail, turns to the crash of 1929 and the people around it: bankers, politicians, regulators and ordinary investors who borrowed to buy stocks. He shows how easy credit and confident talk built the bubble, and how quickly it gave way. It reads more like a drama than an economics text. The one hesitation: the cast is large, and if you already know this period well, some of it will feel familiar. Don't expect investment advice either. As a story about how markets and people behave when everyone is sure prices only go up, it is worth your time.
— Matt Jordan
Quick summary
- Book
- 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History by Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Who it's for
- Readers who like financial history told as drama, especially anyone curious how bubbles form. It offers no investment tips.
- Key topics
- The 1929 stock market crash
- Easy credit and speculation
- Bankers, regulators and ordinary investors
- The road to the Great Depression
- Shelves
- Economics, History, Current Events
Details
- Author
- Andrew Ross Sorkin
- ASIN
- 0593296966
- On these shelves
- Economics History Current Events
- Short link
mattsbooks.org/r/1929
