3739. 1929: The Year of the Great Crash, by William K. Klingaman (read 1 May 2003) It was 29 Nov 1997 when I so enjoyed this author's evocative and stunning book 1941 Our Lives in a World on the Edge. So when I saw this book (published in 1989) I wanted to read it. It is an equally good read, though it is popular rather than academic history. He begins with Election Day 1928 and progresses into 1930, with a great epilogue, telling a bit about what happened to the people prominent during 1929. While the stock market is a central thesis much more of what happened during the period is covered, e.g., the Feb 14, 1929, massacre, events in England and Germany, etc. I have read other books on the 1929 crash, such as The Day America Crashed by Tom Schachtman (read 3 July 1979) and The Day the Bubble Burst: A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts (read 25 Mar 2000--coincidentally the height of the Clinton Years bull market!) but found this book much better than either of those. The bibliography lists no less than 26 books I've read, and also many that I would like to read ( )