SIX DAYS IN OCTOBER
The Stock Market Crash of 1929
Hardback
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In this fascinating account, Wall Street Journal bureau chief Karen Blumenthal chronicles six grim and desperate October days in 1929 when America's financial system teetered on collapse.
In addition to the book’s approximately 70 photographs, cartoons, newspaper pages, and other primary source documents, 16 sidebars explain such topics as stock exchanges and brokerage houses, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, bulls and bears, stock splits, buying on margin, and insider trading. Ideal resource for units on economics and America in the Great Depression.
| Copyright | 2002 |
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| Publisher | Atheneum |
| Pages | 156 |
| Grade | 7 and up |
| ISBN | 9780689842764 |