Only Yesterday

By Frederick Lewis Allen (1964)

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...