John Brooks

Once in Golconda (eBook, ePUB)

A True Drama of Wall Street, 1920-1938

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Business Adventurescomes the chronicle of the stock market crash of 1929 and its aftermath Legend had it that anyone who passed through Golconda, a city in southern India, attained tremendous wealth. But Golconda, now in ruins, ran out of riches, and its glory vanished forever. Some have painted a similar picture of Wall Street between the two world wars. But there is more to the story of the bull market of the 1920s and the ensuing economic devastation that befell the United States. In fascinating detail, distinguished journalist John Brooks recounts the euphoric financial climb of the twenties as well as the vertiginous crash of 1929. From the heady days of economic prosperity to the sobering time after the collapse, Brooks's rendering of this tale of vast fortune and then tragic misfortune is both dramatic and percipient. Profiling some of the era's most famous-and infamous-bankers, traders, and hucksters, Brooks gives a stunning and colorful account of this period of boom and bust.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781497679078
• Artikelnr.: 41356891

Autorenporträt

John Brooks (1920-1993) was an award-winning writer best known for his contributions to the New Yorker as a financial journalist. He was also the author of ten nonfiction books on business and finance, a number of which were critically acclaimed works examining Wall Street and the corporate world. His books Once in Golconda, The Go-Go Years, and Business Adventures have endured as classics. Although he is remembered primarily for his writings on financial topics, Brooks published three novels and wrote book reviews for Harper's Magazine and the New York Times Book Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Overture: The Outrage.
Ticker Tyranny.
The Almost Aristocracy.
So Near the Apes.
Things Fall Apart.
Enter the White Knight.
Gold Standard on the Booze.
Ordeal in Washington.
The White Knight Unhorsed.
Rising Action.
Catastrophe.
Denouement.
Acknowledgments.
Sources.
Index.