can anyone suggest good books about the events that led to the crash of the stock market?

Question

any book at all analyzing events leading to the Great Depression and the crash of the stock market....thnx

Answer 1

Take a look at "The Great Crash 1929" by John Kenneth Galbraith. A best selling overview of the events leading up to the 1929 crash and the great depression.

Another must read for any investor is "Stocks for the Long Run" by Jeremy J. Siegel. Jeremy's book does not focus on any individual period but provides a great overview of financial asset performance over the last 200 years. Enjoy!

Answer 2

I finished the "Blood on the Street" book
which rehashed the market crash of 2000 to 2002
events. Now I am starting on "The next Great Bubble
Boom". The author, Harry Kent, insists that we will
see DOW at 40,000 by the end of this decade though to
be followed by a "great bush" from 2010 to 2012. From
its preface, the author's premise appears to be based
on demographics and life-style cycles. He draws
parallel between this decade with the one before 1929.
He wrote that both early 1920 and 2000 experienced
similar tech wreck and terrorist crisis (read the same
comparison in Carnival on Wall Street**.)

Also see references under:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression

Answer 3

Mary Poppins!