Author Talk: Andrew Ross Sorkin, "1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History"

History often serves as a powerful teacher, helping to shape society’s responses to modern-day dilemmas. In 1929, Andrew Ross Sorkin draws on eight years of research and newly uncovered archival material to reconstruct the crash not as an abstraction, but as a human drama—driven by overconfidence, unchecked ambition, and a financial system that rewarded risk until it suddenly didn't. He masterfully takes us behind the curtain of Wall Street, inside the minds of the day’s most powerful financiers and influencers, and toward a better understanding of how turning to yesterday’s blunders can inform today’s decisionmakers. What does the greatest market crash in history have to teach us about how we look at the world today? What’s at stake? Join Andrew Ross Sorkin as he dives into Wall Street’s crash of 1929 and what its history has to tell us about the cycles we may be living through right now.

As with all Global Conference public sessions, registration is not required to attend an Author Talk, but seating is limited. Seats will be open to the first 100 attendees. We recommend Conference attendees add any Author Talks of interest to your agenda.

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