Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street 1920-1938

John Brooks's Once in Golconda is a historical account of the 1929 Wall Street Crash, including the run-up in stock prices over the 1920s and the painful Great Depression that followed. Brooks writes engaging character-driven narratives and is a good prose stylist, but his financial intelligence is crucially lacking (as evidenced by the lack of numbers or specific details throughout the text).