{"product_id":"1929-inside-the-crash-9780141994970","title":"1929: Inside the Crash","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail, comes a riveting, fly-on-the-wall account of the most infamous stock market crash in history  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.  With unparalleled access to historical records and newly uncovered documents, New York Times bestselling author 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 in an endless boom led to wreckage. 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.  This 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 skeptics who saw the crash coming-only to be dismissed until it was too late.  Hailed as a landmark book, Too Big to Fail reimagined how financial crises are told. Now, with 1929, Sorkin delivers an immersive, electrifying account of the most pivotal market collapse of all time-with lessons that remain as urgent as ever. More than just a history, 1929 is a crucial blueprint for understanding the cycles of speculation, the forces that drive financial upheaval, and the warning signs we ignore at our peril.  *The Atlantic Monthly\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9780141994970\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 15 Sep 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 19.7(H)x12.9(L)x2.7(W)430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 430\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eAndrew 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 drama Billions, and a television co-presenter for CNBC's Squawk Box.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003eSorkin's \u003cb\u003evivid \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003eforensic \u003c\/b\u003eaccount . . . is \u003cb\u003ea real eye-opener \u003c\/b\u003e. . . a work of \u003cb\u003etrue scholarship\u003c\/b\u003e, the fruits of eight years of research by Sorkin drawing on an extensive array of materials, including personal correspondence and unpublished papers whose details have been woven into the story of the Great Crash for the first time. \u003ci\u003e1929 \u003c\/i\u003ewill have a distinct place within the Great Crash\/Depression genre, just as did \u003ci\u003eToo Big to Fail\u003c\/i\u003e and for the same reasons—a people’s tragedy told through the lens of the leading players and their personalities, friends and families -- Andy Haldane * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTotally fascinating, chilling\u003c\/b\u003e... this is a\u003cb\u003e fastidiously composed and gripping account \u003c\/b\u003eof greed and ego versus accountability and responsibility colliding -- Chris Evans\u003cbr\u003eMr. Sorkin wisely tells this \u003cb\u003esprawling story\u003c\/b\u003e in a focused way, reconstructing how crucial figures experienced the ructions \u003cb\u003ealmost hour by hour\u003c\/b\u003e . . . Mr. Sorkin’s coverage of the crisis in 2008 was based on hundreds of interviews, but most of the people in this tale have been dead for decades. You would be forgiven for forgetting it. The combination of \u003cb\u003eextensive research\u003c\/b\u003e and a \u003cb\u003elively tone\u003c\/b\u003e makes both the crash and the men involved feel more recent * Economist *\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003e1929 \u003c\/i\u003eAndrew Ross Sorkin brings the drama of the crash to a \u003cb\u003ehigh pitch.\u003c\/b\u003e He has consulted weather reports, diaries, architectural records and every newspaper imaginable to create \u003cb\u003ea vivid and historically accurate account of the boom, crash, and aftermath\u003c\/b\u003e. Although Mr. Sorkin offers hints that the crash looms larger in our memory than it did in the moment, his focus is on portraying the lives of the people who lived through it. It is\u003cb\u003e one of the best narrative histories I’ve read\u003c\/b\u003e * The Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVivid\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003epacy\u003c\/b\u003e, a gallery of \u003cb\u003efinely drawn\u003c\/b\u003e pen portraits... shows how delusion, myopia and greed led to financial disaster... [Sorkin] reconstructs a Wall Street that is at once a period piece and familiar setting -- Pratinav Anil * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003cb\u003eabsolutely riveting \u0026amp; illuminating account of the '29 market crash\u003c\/b\u003e, one that clarifies many misinterpretations \u0026amp; has deep resonance today -- David Grann, New York Times bestselling author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGroundbreaking\u003c\/b\u003e... Whereas Galbraith saw the crash through the lens of economics, Sorkin comes at it as a scoop-driven storytelling business journalist, of which he is \u003cb\u003eone of the best.\u003c\/b\u003e Having written the definitive fly-on-the-wall account of the financial crisis of 2008, \u003ci\u003eToo Big to Fail\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-created the hit hedge fund television melodrama \u003ci\u003eBillions\u003c\/i\u003e, Sorkin is again \u003cb\u003estrong on character, drama and narrative, bringing events and long-dead personalities to life in all their complexity and colour\u003c\/b\u003e -- Matthew Bishop * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of my books of 2025\u003c\/b\u003e... a character-led study of the events leading up to the Great Crash -- Lewis Goodhall * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eI am absolutely \u003cb\u003eloving \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e1929\u003c\/i\u003e... He writes things so \u003cb\u003ebrilliantly\u003c\/b\u003e, he writes it like a \u003cb\u003epage turner \u003c\/b\u003eand its absolutely \u003cb\u003efascinating\u003c\/b\u003e… it’s an \u003cb\u003eextraordinary \u003c\/b\u003estory. -- Marina Hyde * The Rest is Entertainment *\u003cbr\u003eIt would be tempting to say that among bestselling American financial authors, Andrew Ross Sorkin is the new Michael Lewis . . . \u003ci\u003e1929 \u003c\/i\u003eis an \u003cb\u003eepic \u003c\/b\u003eexercise in bringing history to life through its big characters. Like \u003ci\u003eToo Big to Fail \u003c\/i\u003eit will be labelled ‘definitive’—and deservedly so -- Martin Vander Weyer * Spears *\u003cbr\u003eIn this \u003cb\u003eglorious \u003c\/b\u003eaccount of the 1929 crash, Andrew Ross Sorkin conjures up the mad euphoria, crushing collapse, and subsequent political reckoning with equal \u003cb\u003efinesse\u003c\/b\u003e. He tells the story through \u003cb\u003ea rich cast of unforgettable characters\u003c\/b\u003e and resists the urge to portray them as simple heroes or villains so much as flawed people lost in a calamity almost beyond their comprehension. This converts his saga into \u003cb\u003ea timeless cautionary tale that speaks to the present\u003c\/b\u003e no less than the past -- Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003e Washington\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Ross Sorkin has done it again. \u003ci\u003e1929\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003emesmerizing from beginning to end\u003c\/b\u003e—a deeply \u003cb\u003eimportant \u003c\/b\u003ebook. Like \u003ci\u003eToo Big to Fail\u003c\/i\u003e, it’s a \u003cb\u003emasterclass \u003c\/b\u003ein narrative nonfiction, a \u003cb\u003edazzling \u003c\/b\u003etale of a pivotal moment in history brought to life through \u003cb\u003emeticulous reporting\u003c\/b\u003e. The colorful characters, the politics, the financial mania—it all unfolds with \u003cb\u003eeerie relevance\u003c\/b\u003e. You feel like you’re reading about today. I was blown away -- Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of \u003ci\u003e Steve Jobs \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e Benjamin Franklin \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Andrew Ross Sorkin’s \u003cb\u003efresh \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003erevealing \u003c\/b\u003etelling, the stock market crash of 1929 becomes a \u003cb\u003egreat human drama\u003c\/b\u003e, full of contingency and misunderstanding, friends and enemies, courage and fear, greed and generosity. Out of that financial catastrophe came many of the institutions and ideas that we still turn to in moments of crisis. But as Sorkin shows, even those with the greatest wealth and power and experience can still be caught off guard by the twists and turns of history -- Beverly Gage, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003e G-Man \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith \u003cb\u003ea storyteller’s eye\u003c\/b\u003e and an \u003cb\u003eexpert’s grasp of detail,\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Ross Sorkin has given us an \u003cb\u003eengaging \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003ememorable \u003c\/b\u003eaccount of one of the largest events in American history—the Crash of 1929. In Sorkin’s \u003cb\u003egifted \u003c\/b\u003ehands, this is a human drama with profound consequences for democracy and for capitalism—and it is a reminder of the fragility of the things we like to think are invulnerable. -- Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003e American Lion \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen a story of immense historical gravity—the drama and trauma of 1929—meets a writer \u003cb\u003esteeped in its scholarship and gifted with a rare clarity of vision\u003c\/b\u003e, the result is a work of \u003cb\u003elasting resonance\u003c\/b\u003e: tangible and immediate. In \u003ci\u003e1929\u003c\/i\u003e, Andrew Ross Sorkin captures the moment when ambition, greed, and speculative euphoria collided to plunge America into an economic abyss, sparking the Great Depression. Through \u003cb\u003evivid storytelling\u003c\/b\u003e and a cast of \u003cb\u003epowerfully rendered characters\u003c\/b\u003e, Sorkin reveals a nation at the breaking point—grappling with denial, reckoning, and the steep cost of excess. It’s \u003cb\u003ea haunting elegy\u003c\/b\u003e for a fractured era, and a timeless reminder that progress is fragile, choices have repercussions, and the flaws embedded in the human condition are ours to confront -- Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003e No Ordinary Time \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this \u003cb\u003egripping \u003c\/b\u003eaccount of the Great Crash of 1929, Andrew Ross Sorkin tells the story through the actions of a handful of the central protagonists, among them a rogue's gallery of Wall Street bankers and speculators, living in their own make-believe world, Washington politicians grappling with forces they did not fully understand, and Federal Reserve officials torn by outside pressures. As you read his \u003cb\u003ebrilliant \u003c\/b\u003enarrative, the tragic arc of the personal stories mirrored by the unfolding calamity overtaking the nation at large, you cannot help but think of today -- Liaquat Ahamed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRiveting\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003etimely\u003c\/b\u003e... brings to life the furious disputes between brokers and policymakers, the frantic attempts to keep the economic ship on an even keel and the blunders that helped tip the entire financial system into freefall -- Alexander Howard * The Conversation *\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Andrew Ross Sorkin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49279488622809,"sku":"9780141994970","price":28.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9780141994970.jpg?v=1789818496","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/1929-inside-the-crash-9780141994970","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}