Once in Golconda
Subtitle: A True Drama of Wall Street 1920-1938 (Wiley Investment Classics)
Publisher: Wiley
Published: September 21, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780471357537
First sentence: On Thursday, September 16, 1920, a few seconds after the Trinity Church bell had finished tolling noon, the pleasant fall air of downtown Manhattan (weather clear, temperature sixty-nine degrees, market up slightly) was rent by an enormous and devastating explosion.