{"product_id":"1929-inside-the-greatest-crash-in-wall-street-history","title":"1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History","description":"\u003cp\u003eAndrew Ross Sorkin, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e financial journalist and author of \u003cem\u003eToo Big to Fail\u003c\/em\u003e, turns his narrative gifts toward the most consequential market collapse in American history. \u003cem\u003e1929\u003c\/em\u003e is a deeply reported, character-driven account of the months leading up to and through the crash, built on newly uncovered documents and historical records. Published by Crown in 2025, it was a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book, one of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025, and named a Best Book of the Year by \u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTIME\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSorkin's argument is not simply that greed caused the crash. He shows how an entire ecosystem of incentives, beliefs, and institutional failures made the disaster not just possible but, in retrospect, nearly inevitable. The personalities he uncovers, visionaries and fraudsters, cautious skeptics dismissed as cranks, titans who fell from grace, are rendered with the same forensic precision that made his 2008 crisis account a landmark. The parallels to contemporary markets are neither forced nor subtle: Sorkin makes them explicit, and they are uncomfortable in the best way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor faculty in economics, financial history, and business, this book is an accessible yet intellectually serious classroom text. It works in courses on financial crises, economic history, or behavioral economics, and it speaks directly to students trying to understand how rational actors collectively produce irrational outcomes. For historians and social scientists more broadly, it raises important questions about institutional memory, regulatory capture, and the political economy of financial oversight that remain unresolved today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crown \/ Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44053904687201,"sku":"9780593296967","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0629\/4978\/5697\/files\/9780593296967.jpg?v=1776883779","url":"https:\/\/shop.fpxp.io\/products\/1929-inside-the-greatest-crash-in-wall-street-history","provider":"Inkwell General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}