About This Book
1929 (2025) explores the events leading up to the most devastating stock market crash in modern history. Tracing the unchecked speculation, economic euphoria, and regulatory complacency that created the conditions for the collapse, it reveals how illusions of endless growth blinded an entire generation.
Who Should Read This?
- Anyone curious about market bubbles and crashes
- History lovers interested in economic turning points
- Readers of accessible financial journalism
About the Author
Andrew Ross Sorkin is an award-winning journalist at the New York Times and co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box. He is the founder and editor-at-large of DealBook, a leading financial newsletter published by the Times. Sorkin is best known for Too Big to Fail (2009), a bestselling account of the 2008 financial crisis. That book spent more than six months on the New York Times Best Seller list, won the Gerald Loeb Award for Best Business Book, and was adapted into an HBO film nominated for 11 Emmys.
