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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828654903321

Autore

Klein Maury <1939->

Titolo

Rainbow's end : the crash of 1929 / / Maury Klein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2003

ISBN

1-280-65538-0

0-19-803090-8

1-60256-703-4

0-19-530235-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 p.)

Collana

Pivotal moments in American history

Disciplina

338.5420973

Soggetti

Stock Market Crash, 1929

Depressions - 1929 - United States

United States Economic conditions 1918-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Editors' Note; Introduction: The Crash as Historical Problem; Prologue: The Summer of Fun, 1929; 1 America the Bountiful; 2 The Club and the Street; 3 Plungers and Politicians; 4 The Birth of the Bull; 5 The Good Life; 6 The New Era; 7 The Culture of Greed; 8 Makin' Whoopee; 9 The Fall Follies; 10 Rainbow's End; 11 Over the Rainbow; Epilogue: The Winter of Discontent, 1930; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Crash of '29 is one of the key moments in American, and indeed world history. This narrative historian addresses its effects on both business and society, and recreates the coming together of economic forces culminating in this disaster.