In 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation. But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicked traders, another drama unfolded-one of visionaries and fraudsters, titans and dreamers, euphoria and ruin.\r\n\r\nWith unparalleled access to historical records and newly uncovered documents, Andrew Ross Sorkin takes readers inside the chaos of the crash, behind the scenes of a raging battle between Wall Street and Washington and the larger-than-life characters whose ambition and naivety led from boom to bust. The dizzying highs and brutal lows of this era eerily mirror today’s world, where markets soar, political tensions mount and the fight over financial influence plays out once again.\r\n\r\nThis is not just a story about money. 1929 is a tale of power, psychology and the seductive illusion that ‘this time is different.’ It’s about disregarded alarm bells, financiers who fell from grace, and sceptics who saw the crash coming – only to be dismissed until it was too late. Sorkin’s immersive, electrifying account of the most pivotal market collapse of all time is a crucial blueprint for understanding the forces that drive financial upheaval, and the warning sign we ignore at our peril.\r\n\r\nAndrew Ross Sorkin is the author of Too Big to Fail, which won the Gerald Loeb Award for Best Business Book and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. Sorkin is a long-time journalist at The New York Times, the creator of DealBook, co-creator of the TV dream Billions, and a television co-presenter for CNBS’s Squawk Box.