What really brought Wall Street to its knees in 1929?
And could it happen again?
Join bestselling author and financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin for a gripping evening of insight and storytelling as he takes us inside the most infamous market collapse in history. Drawing from his highly anticipated new book, 1929: The Inside Story of the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History, Sorkin will unravel how cascading decisions, unchecked ambition, and human folly turned a roaring boom into a catastrophic bust.
With the same narrative force that made Too Big to Fail a modern classic, Sorkin will connect the speculative frenzy of the Roaring Twenties to the financial systems of today—revealing unsettling parallels and offering a powerful reflection on risk, psychology, and the seductive illusion that “this time is different.”
Sorkin will be in conversation with Susan Goldberg, Pulitzer-winning journalist and CEO of GBH.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear from one of the sharpest, boldest voices in journalism.
About the author:
Andrew Ross Sorkin is an award-winning journalist for The New York Times and a co-anchor of Squawk Box, CNBC’s signature morning program. He is also the founder and editor-at-large of DealBook, an online daily financial report published by The New York Times that he started in 2001. Sorkin is the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail, and the co-producer of the 2011 film adaptation, which was nominated for 11 Emmy Awards. Sorkin is also co-creator of the drama series “Billions” on Showtime.
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