Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781893122468
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Beard Books - Incorporated
Publication Date: 12-19-1999
Pages: 480
Product Dimensions: 5.54(w) x 8.52(h) x 1.27(d)
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 3 |
1. | William Duer and the Panic of 1792 | 8 |
2. | The Crisis of Jacksonian Finances: 1837 | 32 |
3. | The Western Blizzard of 1857 | 77 |
4. | The Circus Comes to Town: 1865-69 | 115 |
5. | Crisis of the Gilded Age: 1873 | 154 |
6. | Grant's Last Panic: 1884 | 197 |
7. | Grover Cleveland and the Ordeal of 1893-95 | 230 |
8. | The Struggle of the Titans: The Northern Pacific Corner of 1901 | 273 |
9. | The Knickerbocker Trust Panic of 1907 | 297 |
10. | The Year the Stock Market Closed: 1914 | 322 |
11. | 1929: The Making of the Myth | 350 |
12. | The Kennedy Slide: 1962 | 392 |
| Conclusion | 427 |
| A Note on Sources | 435 |
| General Bibliography | 443 |
| Index | 453 |
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