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Rainbow's End
Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929 | Maury Klein
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Rainbow's End tells the story of the stock market collapse in a colorful, swift-moving narrative that blends a vivid portrait of the 1920s with an intensely gripping account of Wall Street's greatest catastrophe. The book offers a vibrant picture of a world full of plungers, powerful bankers, corporate titans, millionaire brokers, and buoyantly optimistic stock market bulls. We meet Sunshine Charley Mitchell, head of the National City Bank, powerful financiers Jack Morgan and Jacob Schiff, Wall Street manipulators such as the legendary Jesse Livermore, and the lavish-living Billy Durant, founder of General Motors. As Klein follows the careers of these men, he shows us how the financial house of cards gradually grew taller, as the irrational exuberance of an earlier age gripped America and convinced us that the market would continue to rise forever. Then, in October 1929, came a "perfect storm"-like convergence of factors that shook Wall Street to its foundations. We relive Black Thursday, when police lined Wall Street, brokers grew hysterical, customers "bellowed like lunatics," and the ticker tape fell hours behind. This compelling history of the Crash--the first to follow the market closely for the two years leading up to the disaster--illuminates a major turning point in our history.
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Clwojick
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Soooo... I started a midnight project while I was listening to my last audiobook. I had to stop for the night, since it‘s going on 2am and I work tomorrow morning. I only have the top 3 shelves done. I‘ll finish it off tomorrow, but I‘m not sure how I feel about organizing by color. Normally I do by height, but I thought I‘d change it up. 🤷🏻‍♀️

What do you guys think? Are you a fan of rainbow bookshelves?

Laru79 They look so great! I‘m an alphabetical shelver, both because I work in a library and also because I find it easier to find what I want! 5y
BookwormAHN I think they look really cool but I'm not sure how practical they are. I personally like to group authors or at least subjects together 😺 5y
annamatopoetry Looks awesome! Organizing by color is the only way for me to achieve any kind of visual harmony in the room with the bookshelves (I identify books by color anyway, and sort fiction and nonfiction separately.) 5y
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Velvetfur That looks fantastic! I have to admit I order by subject, but this does look really good. I love how there's all the other books around the bookcase too 😁 5y
Powered_By_Plants 😍love this! 🌈 Looks very aesthetically pleasing . Impressive collection! Is this your TBR books? I always charity shop books Iv read but after seeing this maybe I should grow my collection 😁 look wonderful 💕 5y
Cathythoughts I love the rainbow shelves 👍🏻♥️ 5y
Deifio Looks fantastic! I mostly sort alphabetically. Just a quick question what do you do when books in a series change colour (e.g. book 1 is red and book 2 is yellow)? 5y
kezzlou85 Very pretty. 5y
ljuliel Looks very organized and pretty done in colors. 5y
Texreader Pretty! But I prefer alphabetical. Ditto question from @Deifio 5y
Megabooks Looks really nice!! 👍🏻👍🏻 5y
JazzFeathers It looks good to me! 5y
jb72 It looks pretty, but wow that‘s a lot of work. 5y
jewright It‘s pretty! I have mine organized by type of book and alphabetically by author. Never even thought of rainbow! 5y
Clwojick @Powered_By_Plants yeah! All TBR with the exception of 10 or so classics, and my stack of children‘s books. I donate all my books after I‘ve read them as well. 🤩 5y
Clwojick @Deifio good question, since I ran into this often last night. I just tested it out in both color sections, and seen which one looked better. 5y
Clwojick @Texreader ☝️☝️☝️☝️ 5y
Clwojick @jb72 hahaha! Yeah, I should‘ve known I‘d get completed absorbed into the project... hence being away until 4am 😴🙈 5y
MrT Superb! That would so mess with my OCD/anxiety though 🤯 5y
Clwojick @MrT yeah... I looked at it again this morning, and I‘m thinking I‘m going to change it up again when I get home. Weird things bother me, so for some reason this layout is harder for me then the mix matched way i originally had them in. Maybe I‘ll try alphabetically next! 🙈 5y
MrT I'm strictly alphabetical by author, then publication date, by hardback, paperback 5y
Scochrane26 I am not a fan of rainbow because I‘m too weirded out by splitting up authors‘ books that should go together. But, everyone has different preferences. 5y
marleed My front room shelves are organized by color for the season (right now back-to-school yellow, red, white). That means my ‘reading room‘ wall of shelves are always changing and I love that since it lets me ‘play‘ with my books. I keep meaningful books - even thrift buy after already reading/listening to a library copy! I also donate about 5-10 books a month to LFLs or the library. I have an interior LFL shelf for visitors! 5y
SilverShanica I agree with @Scochrane26 - series need to stay together (in series order). But it certainly looks cool. 5y
Daisey I always think shelves by color look beautiful, but I could never organize my own books that way. I want authors‘ books together, and I‘m sure I wouldn‘t be able to find something since I would forget the color. 5y
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Mandigolightly
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It‘s so simple, but I‘m absolutely in love with the rainbow book display at my library…the patrons are loving it too! #librariansoflitsy ☁️ ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜☁️

wordzie 😍😎 5y
Velvetfur That's gorgeous! ❤️💛💚💙💜💟 5y
manicdirteater Love this! 🌈 5y
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