Once in Golconda
A True Drama of Wall Street, 1920–1938
by John Brooks
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Finance, and Business.
The 1920s and 1930s constituted an unforgettable epoch in Wall Street history. Brooks outlines the metaphor of the era's financial boom and bust: Golconda, now a ruin, was a city in southeastern India where, according to legend, everyone got rich ... a similar legend attached to Wall Street between the wars....
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Finance, and Business.
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Brendan Moynihan
“This book is about the cycles of the markets and the economy, it has a broad scope, and so some of these things have happened before in similar ways, and not all identical, but to try to get some history and perspective that way.”
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