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An account of the causes, events, effects, and aftermath of the financial panic and crash of 1929 that was the beginning of the Great Depression.

A study of events, people and society before, during and after the crash of 1929, emphasizing the involvement of Joseph Kennedy, Stuart Mott, Jesse Livermore, and others who affected, and were affected by, events.

Thursday, October 24: the Wall Street Stock Exchange crashes, the greatest economic crisis of the 20th century suddenly breaks out. Fueled by frenetic speculation, and by the idea that everyone can get rich without limits, it puts a final stop to the euphoria of the 1920s. America is then caught in a devastating cycle which spreads around the world a few months later like a malign infection. Calling on renowned historians and economists, such as Joseph...

With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers portraits of four men--Montagu Norman, Amile Hilaire Emile Moreau, Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, and Benjamin Strong--whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century.