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The Day the Bubble Burst : A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
Title:
The Day the Bubble Burst : A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
Author:
Thomas, Gordon.
ISBN:
9781497658776
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (957 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Authors' Note -- Chapter One - The Rampaging Bull -- Chapter Two - A View From Abroad -- Chapter Three - The Dealer Wheelers -- Chapter Four - Peaks and Tremors -- Chapter Five - Buy Until It Hurts -- Chapter Six - Bankers of a Kind -- Chapter Seven - Marriage Arrangements -- Chapter Eight - The Pool -- Chapter Nine - The Corralled Bull Escapes -- Chapter Ten - Everybody's Doing It -- Chapter Eleven - Wall Street Afloat -- Chapter Twelve - The Chinese Connection -- Chapter Thirteen - A Fraud Is Born -- Chapter Fourteen - Gathering Clouds -- Chapter Fifteen - Divorce Detroit Style -- Chapter Sixteen - Everybody Ought to Be Rich -- Chapter Seventeen - High Noon -- Chapter Eighteen - Dow Jones Is Going to Heaven -- Chapter Nineteen - Confession Time -- Chapter Twenty - The Peak of Illusion -- Chapter Twenty-One - The Eve of Reality -- Chapter Twenty-Two - Top Hats and Czardas -- Chapter Twenty-Three - All at Sea -- Chapter Twenty-Four - Crash -- Chapter Twenty-Five - Delusions Sustain Illusions -- Chapter Twenty-Six - The Day the Bubble Burst -- Chapter Twenty-Seven - The Party's Over -- Chapter Twenty-Eight - Aftermath -- Appendixes -- Sources -- Special Thanks -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index -- Copyright.
Abstract:
A riveting living history about Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929. Captures the era, the intoxicating expectancy, and the hope that ruled men's hearts and minds before the bubble burst and the black despair of the decade that followed.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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