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The Day the Bubble Burst

A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929

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The Day the Bubble Burst

By: Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts
Narrated by: David Colacci
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The New York Times best seller that tells the story of an overheated stock market and the financial disaster that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s.

A riveting living history about Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929. Captures the era, the intoxicating expectancy, the hope that ruled men's heart and minds before the bubble burst and the black despair of the decade that followed.

©1979 Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts (P)2021 Tantor Americas United States Stock Market History
All stars
Most relevant
A brilliant story

Very well written and narrated
History does repeat itself
Well worth a listen.

Fantastic story

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Background stories of the great and small following through to the crash and its effect on them. Wonderful detail and superbly read

Fabulous read

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A clever articulate book that brings to life not just the financial story but the human one too. Well worth a listen.

It’s the stories of people that resonate

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You have to get through almost all of the book before the collapse is even mentioned.

There are seemingly endless stories about dozens of people which drift from being real history to a strange kind of fictional account of, say, two people sitting in a car discussing the weather.

It is a very strange way to handle this important subject as you have to wait until 4 hours before the end until it gets to the point. Why they decided to spend so long making up anecdotes about dozens (hundreds?) of people, when in an hour they could have set out what was happening pre-crash, is really beyond me.

To be honest you will learn as much on wikipedia and save yourself tedious hours trying to work out who is who and why you should care, who they were having dinner with and who split the gravy and what happened at various weddings.

Tedious and irrelevant.

I dare you to try and get through it.

Hours and hours too long

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Good clarity of delivery. However, the story was very long with what felt like a vast cast of characters introduced one after the other in sometimes too much personal detail. In the end the conclusion sums up the impacts fast, but fails to really show why it happened.

A worthwhile read/listen about a fascinating point in 20th century history.

Quite good but not great

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