{"product_id":"once-in-golconda-9780471357520","title":"Once in Golconda","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce in Golconda In this book, John Brooks-who was one of the most elegant of all business writers-perfectly catches the flavor of one of history''s best-known financial dramas: the 1929 crash and its aftershocks. It''s packed with parallels and parables for the modern reader. -From the Foreword by Richard Lambert Editor-in-Chief, The Financial Times Once in Golconda is a dramatic chronicle of the breathtaking rise, devastating fall, and painstaking rebirth of Wall Street in the years between the wars. Focusing on the lives and fortunes of some of the era''s most memorable traders, bankers, boosters, and frauds, John Brooks brings to vivid life all the ruthlessness, greed, and reckless euphoria of the ''20s bull market, the desperation of the days leading up to the crash of ''29, and the bitterness of the years that followed. Praise for Once in Golconda A fast-moving, sophisticated account.embracing the stock-market boom of the twenties, the crash of 1929, the Depression, and the comin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOverture: The Outrage.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ticker Tyranny.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Almost Aristocracy.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e So Near the Apes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Things Fall Apart.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Enter the White Knight.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Gold Standard on the Booze.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ordeal in Washington.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The White Knight Unhorsed.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Rising Action.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Catastrophe.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Denouement.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Sources.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Index.","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733787980119,"sku":"9780471357520","price":22.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780471357520.jpg?v=1720001690","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/once-in-golconda-9780471357520","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}