Get the Summary of Andrew Ross Sorkin's 1929 in 20 minutes. In the 1920s, a decade of unprecedented optimism, the stock market became the US economy's engine, drawing ordinary Americans into credit-financed speculative investing and fostering a collective delusion of safety. 1929 (2025) by award-winning author and journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin chronicles Wall Street's catastrophic collapse and the profound aftermath, seen through the eyes of its most influential figures. Behind the chaos lay a web of ambition, deceit, and denial, as financiers, politicians, and everyday dreamers faced the unraveling of an era. Sorkin brings to life the greed, optimism, and blind faith that fueled the crash—and the painful lessons that remain urgent in today’s volatile markets...
