BLACK TUESDAY
A Novella
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“ The stock market is an indispensable institution of the American way of life. It is a capitalistic delivery room where new business ventures are launched. It is this nation's financial marketplace where investors gather (in the person of brokers) to buy and sell securities. It has seen all the human adventures: comedy and tragedy, success and disaster, riches and ruin; but it survives. In our noble experiment; it survives because it is needed. 'When the market goes up some people lose, but mostly they gain. When the market goes down some 'people gain, but mostly they lose. The market has had many upward spirals, laden with profits, and disastrous descents throughout its long and colorful history.”
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As an academic project, the author extensively researched the day and era of the cataclysmic financial event, the Stock Market Crash of October 29, 1929: its roots and causes he labeled The Gathering Storm; the day itself, The Deluge; and its Aftermath. Concurrent with the history unfolding is the capture of the flavor of the early third of the Twentieth Century, especially of New York City where the event transpired, and the lives and loves of a host of characters assembled by Hanrahan to show that the financial tragedy had its share of victims, participants and affected onlookers