1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History–and How It Shattered a Nation by Andrew Ross Sorkin is a narrative history of the 1929 stock market crash and the economic collapse that followed, tracing how a period of financial exuberance gave way to one of the most devastating crashes in modern history.

The book reconstructs the events leading up to the crash through the actions of bankers, investors, and political leaders, showing how speculation, leverage, and misplaced confidence fueled an unsustainable market boom. It then follows the rapid unraveling of Wall Street, the panic that spread through the financial system, and the broader social and economic consequences that reshaped American life during the Great Depression. Through detailed storytelling and historical reporting, it highlights themes of financial fragility, herd behavior, regulatory failure, and the human cost of market mania, offering a cautionary look at how quickly confidence can turn into crisis.