RaveFinancial Times (UK)The focus on...less-heralded characters not only gives this book its novelty. It is also completely justified given the balance of power, of private over public, at the time ... Sorkin’s vivid and forensic account of standard market practices at the time is a real eye-opener ... First and foremost, this book is a work of true scholarship, the fruits of eight years of research by Sorkin drawing on an extensive array of materials, including personal correspondence and unpublished papers whose details have been woven into the story of the Great Crash for the first time.
