Wall Street Crash (Days That Shook the World) (edition 2003)

The Wall Street Crash (Days That Shook the World) is a nonfiction work by Alex Woolf which documents the cause and devastation of the economic downturn of the early twentieth. At first glance of the cover, the book’s cover shows what appears to be an affluent person selling his car for $100 because he lost his money in the stock market. This immediately depicts this economic downturn as an event that is far reaching and significantly impacts people.

The work primarily focuses on the build up of the stock market crash. Woolf provides details of these causes in one-two pages of content. As the book goes chronologically through the events of the stock market crash to the coming Great Depression, Woolf ties the time period of the late 1920’s and early 1930’s to the period of the early 2000’s which involved the internet “bubble”. This correlation between the tow time periods is clearly explained with simple language and makes the content more comprehensible to younger readers. Educators can use this book as a medium that connects the Great Depression to the Great Recession of 2007 and would make of good fit for social studies and more specifically economic courses. ( )