1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation

“If there is one valuable insight we can learn from the twentieth century, and probably all of history for that matter, it’s that societies are amazingly resilient.

“In that regard 1929 is unique, in the sense that it led to the longest economic malaise in U.S. history. But the trauma of the crash itself passed relatively quickly.

“It is about something f…