1929
Summary
The reference has not verified this book in detail; the summary states only what the title, author and subject establish.
This is a 2025 book by Andrew Ross Sorkin, the New York Times financial columnist and author of Too Big to Fail, on the 1929 stock market crash. Sorkin's established method is narrative reconstruction of a financial crisis from interviews, archives and contemporaneous records, told through the decisions of named participants day by day, which is what he applied to the 2008 crisis in his previous book.
The reference has not yet verified the detail of this book's argument, sources or conclusions. Readers should confirm the specifics directly rather than rely on this entry. What the author and subject establish is the general shape: a reported, character-driven account of the events leading to October 1929 and their immediate aftermath, aimed at a general audience rather than at economists.
Key takeaways 6
- The book covers the 1929 stock market crash and the period leading to it.
- Sorkin works by narrative reconstruction from archival and contemporaneous sources, told through the decisions of named individuals.
- The intended audience is general readers rather than academic economists.
- The method is the one Sorkin applied to the 2008 crisis in Too Big to Fail, reconstructing events day by day through the participants.
- The reference has not verified the book's specific arguments or claims, and readers should check them directly.
- Readers wanting a verified account of 1929 should use Galbraith's The Great Crash 1929 or Allen's Only Yesterday alongside it.
Who should read it
Readers who want a narrative account of 1929, with the caveat that this reference has not yet verified the book's specific content.
About Andrew Ross Sorkin
New York Times columnist, founder and editor-at-large of DealBook; CNBC Squawk Box co-anchor
Too Big to Fail is the standard blow-by-blow reconstruction of the 2008 crisis and is cited across the crisis literature.
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