Contrary to popular belief, there is only one top financial journalist named Andrew Ross Sorkin. But who could blame anyone for thinking there were three, since Sorkin is not only the founder and editor at large of DealBook, the online daily report for The New York Times, and the co-anchor of CNBC’s morning show Squawk Box, but he also co-created the hit show Billions for Showtime and wrote the best-selling Too Big to Fail. In his new book, 1929, Sorkin takes the most famous stock crash in history and turns it into a thrilling saga of greed, folly, and despair that resonates with present times.
JIM KELLY: Of all the finance books you could have written, why did you choose to write about the Great Crash of 1929? As you point out, the topic has not exactly been under-covered. What do you hope a reader will take away from your book that might not be so easily gleaned from other books?
