1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History
- Read: June 2026
- Author: Andrew Ross Sorkin
- First published: 2025
Synopsis
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s narrative history of the 1929 Wall Street collapse — the people, institutions, and decisions that turned a market crash into a global depression, and why the episode still shapes finance.
Source: Open Library (edited as needed)
My commentary
Author honors: Gerald Loeb Awards (financial journalism); Too Big to Fail was a Samuel Johnson Prize finalist (2010)
Awards
- named to NYT 100 Notable Books, The Economist Best Books, and TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2025Other awards