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The Great Crash 1929 John Kenneth Galbraith
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

€�The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. It did not all happen as if by magic….many of the events have similarities with the present crisis! October 1929: As America helter-skelter's through the last days before the great crash the cream of Hollywood parties heedlessly on. Of his “Jazz Age”—years that began with the end of World War I, the advent of woman's suffrage, and Prohibition, and collapsed with the Great Crash of 1929—years awash in bathtub gin and roars of generational rebellion. It's the anniversary of the Great Crash of 1929, but could 2011 be the start of this century's first global financial Depression? Poll: Are We Headed for Another Great Depression? Like the present crisis it had a long burning fuse. I tell why I think the book will be interesting to read and include some ideas and quotes to start the discussion. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. 1929 shows why he was one of the best explainers of economics ever known. Think the great financial crisis was bad? Unfettered Capitalism and the Great Crash of 1929. Think the current challenging economic times are bad? Click here to read a paper on this weeks discussion. The purpose of this blog, "Book Club Prep," is to suggest some books to read in book clubs. Well here's a documentary on the 1929 crash, not to make light of our present situation but this is an eye opening documentary. FAIRLY SUBTITLED "the classic study of that disaster", Professor Galbraith's world-famous history of the Great Crash starting in Oct.