Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: crash
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1997-04-30
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0395859999
ISBN-13: 9780395859995

Rampant speculation. Record trading volumes. Assets bought not because of their value but because the buyer believes he can sell them for more in a day or two, or an hour or two. Welcome to the late 1920s. There are obvious and absolute parallels to the great bull market of the late 1990s, writes Galbraith in a new introduction dated 1997. Of course, Galbraith notes, every financial bubble since 1929 has been compared to the Great Crash, which is why this book has never been out of print since it became a bestseller in 1955. Galbraith writes with great wit and erudition about the perilous acti

Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: crash
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-09-10
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0547248164
ISBN-13: 9780547248165

Of Galbraith’s classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, the Atlantic Monthly said: "Economic writings are seldom notable for their entertainment value, but this book is. Galbraith’s prose has grace and wit, and he distills a good deal of sardonic fun from the whopping errors of the nation’s oracles and the wondrous antics of the financial community."  Originally published in 1955, Galbraith’s book has risen once again as Americans look for perspective on the current global financial crisis.  This new edition will be published on the 80th anniversary of the

Author: Warren Sloat
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Keywords: crash, america
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2004-05-25
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0815412800
ISBN-13: 9780815412809

More than a mere overview of what may well be the most crucial year in American history, and not at all a nostalgia trifle, 1929 is a dramatic tale of a nation leading the rest of the world into the twentiteth century--brilliantly aware of the sruge of energy that has made it the leading world power, and yet blind to the destiny that waits in the caverns of Wall Street.

Author: Marty Gitli
Publisher: Abdo Publishing Company
Keywords: events, essential, crash, market, stock
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $32.79
ISBN-10: 1604530502
ISBN-13: 9781604530506

Author: Brenda Lange
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
Keywords: american, history, milestones, prosperity, market, crash, stock
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-04-30
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0791093549
ISBN-13: 9780791093542

On October 29, 1929, more than 16 million stock shares were sold at the New York Stock Exchange, and by the end of November investors had lost more than $100 billion in assets. With the crash, the prosperity of the Roaring Twenties came to a close and a dark era of financial despair dawned in the United States. "The Stock Market Crash of 1929" is a revealing look at the events that helped usher one of the grimmest periods in American history.

Author: Maury Klein
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: american, history, moments, pivotal, crash, rainbow
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2003-05-01
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0195158016
ISBN-13: 9780195158014

The first major history of the Crash in over a decade, Rainbow’s End tells the story of the stock market collapse in a colorful, swift-moving narrative that blends a vivid portrait of the 1920s with an intensely gripping account of Wall Street’s greatest catastrophe. The book offers a vibrant picture of a world full of plungers, powerful bankers, corporate titans, millionaire brokers, and buoyantly optimistic stock market bulls. We meet Sunshine Charley Mitchell, head of the National City Bank, powerful financiers Jack Morgan and Jacob Schiff, Wall Street manipulators such as the l

Author: U.S. Senate
Publisher: Cosimo Reports
Keywords: wall, street, crash, causes, practices, investigation, stock, exchange, pecora
Number of Pages: 404
Published: 2010-09-01
List price: $24.50
ISBN-10: 1616402806
ISBN-13: 9781616402808

by the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency It reads like a news report from 2009, not 1929: investment practices that favored rich insiders, collusion between Wall Street and Washington DC, the repackaging of bad loans to get them off the books of offending banks, and numerous other financial crimes the impacts of which reverberated through the world economy. Between 1932 and 1934, Ferdinand J. Pecora (1882-1971), an American lawyer, served as chief counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Banking and Currency as it interrogated those responsible for the stock market cr