1929: The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History By Andrew Ross Sorkin

Penguin Random House India is proud to announce the release of 1929: The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History, a gripping and deeply researched account that unveils the truth behind the most devastating financial collapse the world has ever seen. Combining razor-sharp analysis with dramatic storytelling, the book takes readers inside the panic, greed, and power struggles that triggered the crash—and reshaped global finance forever.

What really happened when the world’s most powerful market collapsed overnight?

In 1929, Andrew Ross Sorkin, the New York Times journalist who redefined financial storytelling with Too Big to Fail, turns his lens on the most iconic market crash in history. Drawing on newly uncovered documents and private correspondence, Sorkin reconstructs the greed, euphoria, and catastrophic blindness that fuelled Wall Street’s golden decade, and the devastating implosion that followed.

But this isn’t just history repeating itself. In a time of record-high valuations, speculative bubbles, and political polarization, 1929 reads like both a thriller and a warning. Behind the flashing ticker tapes are characters whose ambition mirrors today’s tech billionaires and policymakers: visionaries and fraudsters who believed “this time is different.”

With the narrative verve that made Too Big to Fail a modern classic and an Emmy-nominated HBO film, Sorkin exposes how financial manias form, why regulation always lags, and what the world refuses to learn from its own cycles of hubris and collapse.

About the Author:

Andew Ross Sorkin is the author of Too Big to Fail, which won the Gerald Loeb Award for Best Business Book, and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. Sorkin is a long-time journalist at The New York Times, the creator of DealBook, co-creator of the TV drama Billions, and a television co-presenter for CNBC’s Squawk Box.