Book · 1955 · Nonfiction
The Great Crash, 1929
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers · 224 pages
★ 6.4 editorial score
Galbraith reconstructs how a country talked itself into buying stock with borrowed money, from the Florida land boom onward, and names the bezzle: the embezzlement a rising market hides and a crash exposes.
