cover image Ninteen Twenty-Nine: The Year of the Great Crash

Ninteen Twenty-Nine: The Year of the Great Crash

William K. Klingaman. HarperCollins Publishers, $11.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-06-091702-9

``With vivid narrative and anecdotal profiles of such diverse characters as Herbert Hoover, Al Capone, Joseph P. Kennedy, the Marx Brothers, F. Scott Fitzgerald and J. P. Morgan, Klingaman shows that the same `mob psychology' that `had borne the bull market to irrational heights' eventually dragged stock prices far below inherent value,'' said PW. (Aug.)