A history of the United States in five crashes : stock market meltdowns that defined a nation

Summary: The Panic of 1907. Black Tuesday (1929). Black Monday (1987). The Great Recession (2008). The Flash Crash (2010). Taken together they tell the story of a nation reaching enormous heights of financial power while experiencing precipitous dips that alter and reset a market where millions of Americans invest their savings, and on which they depend for their futures. Nations blends economic and cultural history to show how each of these major crashes provided painful lessons that have strengthened us and helped us to build the nation we know today.

Record details

ISBN: 0062467271
ISBN: 9780062467270
Physical Description: print
xiv, 336 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-320) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Panic : 1907 -- Crash : 1929 -- Black Monday : 1987 -- Meltdown : 2008 -- Flash crash : 2010.