1929. By Andrew Ross Sorkin. Audiobook

“In 1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin brings the drama of the crash to a high pitch. He has consulted weather reports, diaries, architectural records and every newspaper imaginable to create a vivid and historically accurate account of the boom, crash, and aftermath. Although Mr. Sorkin offers hints that the crash looms larger in our memory than it did in the moment, his focus is on portraying the lives of the people who lived through it. It is one of the best narrative histories I’ve read.”
– The Wall Street Journal

“Mr. Sorkin wisely tells this sprawling story in a focused way, reconstructing how crucial figures experienced the ructions almost hour by hour… Mr. Sorkin’s coverage of the crisis in 2008 was based on hundreds of interviews, but most of the people in this tale have been dead for decades. You would be forgiven for forgetting it. The combination of extensive research and a lively tone makes both the crash and the men involved feel more recent.”
– The Economist

“It would be tempting to say that among bestselling American financial authors, Andrew Ross Sorkin is the new Michael Lewis …  1929 is an epic exercise in bringing history to life through its big characters. Like Too Big to Fail it will be labelled ‘definitive’ – and deservedly so.”
– Spears

“A fable of greed, corruption and incompetence to shock the conscience. It’s exhilarating to watch these men rise and fall and, as in Too Big To Fail, Sorkin carries his readers along on a current of astonishing detail.”
– The New York Times Book Review

“In this glorious account of the 1929 crash, Andrew Ross Sorkin conjures up the mad euphoria, crushing collapse, and subsequent political reckoning with equal finesse. He tells the story through a rich cast of unforgettable characters and resists the urge to portray them as simple heroes or villains so much as flawed people lost in a calamity almost beyond their comprehension. This converts his saga into a timeless cautionary tale that speaks to the present no less than the past.”
– Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Mark Twain

“With a storyteller’s eye and an expert’s grasp of detail, Andrew Ross Sorkin has given us an engaging and memorable account of one of the largest events in American history – the Crash of 1929. In Sorkin’s gifted hands, this is a human drama with profound consequences for democracy and for capitalism – and it is a reminder of the fragility of the things we like to think are invulnerable.”
– Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Lion and And There Was Light

“In Andrew Ross Sorkin’s fresh and revealing telling, the stock market crash of 1929 becomes a great human drama, full of contingency and misunderstanding, friends and enemies, courage and fear, greed and generosity. Out of that financial catastrophe came many of the institutions and ideas that we still turn to in moments of crisis. But as Sorkin shows, even those with the greatest wealth and power and experience can still be caught off guard by the twists and turns of history.”
– Beverly Gage, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of G-Man and The Day Wall Street Exploded

“1929 is the story of the great fall, told from the vantage of a fly on the wall. That wall is Wall Street, and that fly is Andrew Ross Sorkin. This gripping account revisits timeless themes – greed, hubris, comeuppance – but it also sets that fateful year in a moment in time, at once distant, and bracingly familiar. A riveting, crucial read.”
– Jill Lepore, New York Times bestselling author of These Truths and We the People

“[Andrew Ross Sorkin] has written an absolutely riveting & illuminating account of the ’29 market crash, one that clarifies many misinterpretations & has deep resonance today.”
– David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of The Wager