The Great Crash, 1929 The Great Crash, 1929 The Great Crash, 1929 is a book written by John Kenneth Galbraith and published in 1955; it is an economic history of the lead-up to the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The book argues that the 1929 stock market crash was precipitated by rampant speculation in the stock market, that the common denominator of all speculative episodes is the belief of participants that they can become rich without work and that the tendency towards recurrent speculative orgy serves no useful purpose, but rather is deeply damaging to an economy. It was Galbraith's belief that a good
Wall Street bombing last year and a half of his life, where he was guarded 24 hours a day. The bombing has inspired several books, notably "The Day Wall Street Exploded", by Beverly Gage, "The Death Instinct", by Jed Rubenfeld and "Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb (2007)" by Mike Davis. The bombing is the subject of PBS series "American Experience" which broadcast an episode, "The Bombing of Wall Street", in February 2018. Wall Street bombing The Wall Street bombing occurred at 12:01 pm on September 16, 1920, in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. The blast killed