One of the best nonfiction books I’ve read is Too Big to Fail, a moment-by-moment reconstruction of the 2008 financial crisis by New York Times reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin. I was also a journalist during those frenetic days and was frankly envious of Sorkin’s extraordinary access to key figures that gave him a fly-on-the-wall view of how the U.S. economy nearly collapsed. I therefore had pretty high expectations for 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History – And