Black Thursday The Great Crash of 1929 and the Making of the American Century

On October 24, 1929, the ticker tape couldn't keep up. By the time it caught up to the chaos on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, fortunes that had taken decades to build had vanished in hours. Within days, the word on every American's lips was a date that would outlive the men who lived through it: Black Thursday.But the story of the Crash was never really about the numbers. It was about ...