Writing style
Dense · Descriptive · Journalistic
Apple Books1929
History
- Print length
- 592 pagesPenguin Books, Limited, 2025
Description
Andrew Ross Sorkin presents a narrative financial history of the 1929 Wall Street crash, tracing its buildup and consequences across a chronological four-year span that begins months before the collapse. The New York Stock Exchange stands at the center as the Dow Jones reaches a record closing level and the market turns toward crisis. Financiers, business leaders, economists, journalists, speculators, and public officials populate the account. Together, their perspectives illuminate the end of the bull market and the Roaring Twenties, as the crash helps usher the United States into the Great Depression.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Measured
Tone
Cerebral · Dark · Tense
Structure
Chronological nonfiction
Focus
Character · Ideas · Information
Emotional intensity
4 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 3 / 5
- Ideas
- 4 / 5
- Structure
- 3 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 3 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780241479414
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