Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's
- ISBN-10
- 0471189529
- ISBN-13
- 9780471189527
- Series
- Only Yesterday
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997-09-08
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Author
- Frederick Lewis Allen
Description
Written in 1931, this new installment in the Wiley Investment Classics series offers a well-written historical and anecdotal account of the volatile stock market of the 1920s. It traces the rise of post World War I prosperity up to the crash of 1929 before a colorful backdrop that includes Al Capone, Prohibition, the first radio, and the rise and fall of the skirt length.
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