The true story of the bullish 1920s on Wall Street (WS), the 1929 crash & its aftershocks, & the fall of the president of the N.Y. Stock Exchange, Richard Whitney. Takes its name from Golconda, which was a city in India where, according to legend, everyone who went through got rich. A similar legend attached to WS between the wars. Explores the corrupt dealings that led to the securities laws governing today's markets to the one-sided psychology of the bullish investor. Begins with the famous, still unsolved, 1920 explosion outside the Morgan bank. Captures all the drama, ruthlessness, greed, & fantasy of two wild decades that changed Wall Street forever....
