Peace In Their Time

Episode 121 - Crashing

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Today the United States miniseries goes out with the bang of the 1929 stock market crash. It was a confluence of bad decisions, inaction, greed, and terrible timing all coming together to create the great economic crisis of our times. 

 

Bibliography for this episode: 

 

  1. Galbraith, James K. The Great Crash 1929 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 2009
  • Hall, Thomas E. and J. David Ferguson The Great Depression: An International Disaster of Perverse Economic Policies University of Michigan Press 1998
  • Miller, Nathan New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America Da Capo Press 2003
  • Robert E. Gallman The Cambridge Economic History of the United States Volume III: The Twentieth Century Cambridge University Press 2000
  • Whyte, Kenneth Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times Vintage Books 2017

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