Thomas, Gordon

The day the bubble burst : a social history of the Wall Street crash / by Gordon Thomas. - Garden City : Doubleday & Compnay, 1979. - xiii, 484 p. : ill., portraits ; 24 cm. - 338.124.4(73)(09) (NLA) .

Includes bibliography and index.

Cont.: Cover; Title Page; Contents; Authors' Note; Chapter One -- The Rampaging Bull; Chapter Two -- A View From Abroad; Chapter Three -- The Dealer Wheelers; Chapter Four -- Peaks and Tremors; Chapter Five -- Buy Until It Hurts; Chapter Six -- Bankers of a Kind; Chapter Seven -- Marriage Arrangements; Chapter Eight -- The Pool; Chapter Nine -- The Corralled Bull Escapes; Chapter Ten -- Everybody's Doing It; Chapter Eleven -- Wall Street Afloat; Chapter Twelve -- The Chinese Connection; Chapter Thirteen -- A Fraud Is Born; Chapter Fourteen -- Gathering Clouds; Chapter Fifteen -- Divorce Detroit Style Chapter Sixteen -- Everybody Ought to Be RichChapter Seventeen -- High Noon; Chapter Eighteen -- Dow Jones Is Going to Heaven; Chapter Nineteen -- Confession Time; Chapter Twenty -- The Peak of Illusion; Chapter Twenty-One -- The Eve of Reality; Chapter Twenty-Two -- Top Hats and Czardas; Chapter Twenty-Three -- All at Sea; Chapter Twenty-Four -- Crash; Chapter Twenty-Five -- Delusions Sustain Illusions; Chapter Twenty-Six -- The Day the Bubble Burst; Chapter Twenty-Seven -- The Party's Over; Chapter Twenty-Eight -- Aftermath; Appendixes; Sources; Special Thanks; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index

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Depressions --United States.--1929
Stock Market Crash, 1929


United States --Social conditions --1918-1932.

338.124.4(73)(09) (NLA)