About this book
The Financial Times Once in Golconda is a dramatic chronicle of the breathtaking rise, devastating fall, and painstaking rebirth of Wall Street in the years between the wars. Focusing on the lives and fortunes of some of the era's most memorable traders, bankers, boosters, and frauds, John Brooks brings to vivid life all the ruthlessness, greed, and reckless euphoria of the '20s bull market, the desperation of the days leading up to the crash of '29, and the bitterness of the years that followed.
First line
On Thursday, September 16, 1920, a few second after the Trinity Church bell had finished tolling noon, the pleasant fall air of downtown Manhattan (weather clear, temperature sixty-nine degrees, market up slightly) was rent by an enormous and devastating explosion.
First Edition Identification
Harper & Row published a First US Edition in New York, 1969. Allworth Press published a First Edition thus hardcover in New York, 1997. Wiley published a First Edition hardcover in 1999. W.W. Norton published a First Edition hardcover in New York, 1980.
Details
- Title Once in Golconda
- Author Brooks
- Binding Paperback
- Publisher Plume
- Date May 30, 1985
- ISBN 9780525481669
More Copies for Sale
Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street, 1920-1938
by Brooks, John
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 13
- 9780525481669
- ISBN 10
- 0525481664
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
GORING BY SEA, West Sussex, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
NZ$17.94NZ$18.30 shipping to USA
Show Details
Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street, 1920-1938
by John Brooks
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 13
- 9780525481669
- ISBN 10
- 0525481664
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Williamsford, Ontario, Canada
- Item Price
-
NZ$24.83NZ$18.62 shipping to USA
Show Details
Once in Golconda
by Brooks
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 13
- 9780525481669
- ISBN 10
- 0525481664
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
HOUSTON, Texas, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$40.10FREE shipping to USA