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1920's, 1930's & the Great Depression
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| America's Great Depression |
| ROTHBARD, Murray | 1963 | 0945466056 | The Great Depression from the Austrian Economists' view.
View the book online at the Ludvig von Mises Institute.
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| Anatomy of a Crash 1929 |
| LEVIEN, J. R. | 1966 | 0870340379 |
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| A Bubble That Broke the World |
| GARRETT, Garet | 1932 | 0870341219 | Read the biography of Garet Garrett at Wikipedia.
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| The Crash and Its Aftermath |
| WIGMORE, Barry | 1985 | 0313245746 |
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| The Day America Crashed |
| SCHACTMAN, Tom | 1979 | 0399116133 | Hour by hour account of Black Thursday, October 24, 1929, seen mainly from the viewpoint of the "little guy".
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| The Day the Bubble Burst |
| THOMAS, Gordon & MORGAN-WITTS, Max | 1979 | 0385143702 | This was made into a TV movie in the early 1980's, starring Richard Crenna and Robert Vaughn. The book recounts the activities of such bigwig players as William Crapo Durant, A. P. Giannini, Joe Kennedy, and Jesse Livermore, up to Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929.
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| Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression? |
| TEMIN, Pete | 1976 | 0393092097 |
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| Essays on the Great Depression |
| BERNANKE, Ben S. | 2004 | 0691118205 |
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| The Great Bull Market: Wall Street in the 1920s |
| SOBEL, Robert | 1968 | 0393098176 |
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| The Great Crash 1929 |
| GALBRAITH, John Kenneth | 1997 | 0395859999 | Galbraith's classic work with vivid descriptions of Wall Street and the high-profile financiers who influenced the stock market at the time of the October 1929 crash.
Read about the "breathtaking ascent of the Coolidge bull market" and how the "people in high places and low made speculation a way of life."
Read about John Kenneth Galbraith at Wikipedia.
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| Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street, 1920-1938 |
| BROOKS, John | 1969 | 0471357529 | Amazing book that documents the ultimate ruin of many a 1920's Wall
Street high flyer. View our excerpt.
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| Only Yesterday: an Informal History of the 1920's |
| ALLEN, Frederick Lewis | 1931 | 0060800046 | A charming book that describes the fads, fashions, politics, and thinking of the 1920's. The decade culminated in the stock market crash and a sobering
period ensued. You can also view portions of the book online:
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| The Perils of Prosperity |
| LEUCHTENBURG, William | 1993 | 0226473716 |
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| Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929 |
| KLEIN, Maury | 2003 | 0195135164 |
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| Reminiscences of a Stock Operator |
| LEFEVRE, Edwin | 1994 | 0471059706 | "...a man does not have to marry one side of the market till death due them part..."
View our excerpt.
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| Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929-September 3, 1939 |
| ALLEN, Frederick Lewis | 1939 | 0060913223 |
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| The Ups and Downs of a Wall Street Trader During the Depths of the Great Depression |
| FELDMAN, David | 1997 | 0870341286 |
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| The World in Depression 1929-1939 |
| KINDLEBERGER, Charles | 1986 | 0520055926 | "The World in Depression is the best book on the subject, and the subject, in turn, is the economically decisive decade of the century so far." - John Kenneth Galbraith
View Charles Kindleberger's In Memoriam page at MIT.
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