The New York Times bestseller that tells the story of an overheated stock market and the financial disaster that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s.

A riveting living history about Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929. Captures the era, the intoxicating expectancy, the hope that ruled men's heart and minds before the bubble burst and the black despair of the decade that followed.

Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts are authors of four previous books, all highly successful in bookstores and book clubs, all acclaimed in the United States and abroad. The Day the World Ended and Voyage of the Damned were made into major motion pictures; Shipwreck won the Edgar Award in 1973; and The San Francisco Earthquake has been hailed as a major achievement of reporting and writing.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Authors' Note
• Chapter One - The Rampaging Bull
• Chapter Two - A View From Abroad
• Chapter Three - The Dealer Wheelers
• Chapter Four - Peaks and Tremors
• Chapter Five - Buy Until It Hurts
• Chapter Six - Bankers of a Kind
• Chapter Seven - Marriage Arrangements
• Chapter Eight - The Pool
• Chapter Nine - The Corralled Bull Escapes
• Chapter Ten - Everybody's Doing It
• Chapter Eleven - Wall Street Afloat
• Chapter Twelve - The Chinese Connection
• Chapter Thirteen - A Fraud Is Born
• Chapter Fourteen - Gathering Clouds
• Chapter Fifteen - Divorce Detroit Style
• Chapter Sixteen - Everybody Ought to Be Rich
• Chapter Seventeen - High Noon
• Chapter Eighteen - Dow Jones Is Going to Heaven
• Chapter Nineteen - Confession Time
• Chapter Twenty - The Peak of Illusion
• Chapter Twenty-One - The Eve of Reality
• Chapter Twenty-Two - Top Hats and Czardas
• Chapter Twenty-Three - All at Sea
• Chapter Twenty-Four - Crash
• Chapter Twenty-Five - Delusions Sustain Illusions
• Chapter Twenty-Six - The Day the Bubble Burst
• Chapter Twenty-Seven - The Party's Over
• Chapter Twenty-Eight - Aftermath
• Appendixes
• Sources
• Special Thanks
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
• Index
• Copyright