Drawing on diaries, private letters, memoirs, and reportage, David Colbert's acclaimed Eyewitness books offer extraordinary first-hand views of history's pivota

Brings the 400-year history of the world's most famous street to life in the words of the people whose lives were deeply entwined in Wall Street's (WS) performa

A first-person account of the white-knuckle weekend that brought the financial world to its knees, from one of America's most famous business reporters. As bank

Includes a new foreword to the paperback edition.

Thomas Jefferson complains about haggling over the Declaration of Independence ... Jack London guides us through the rubble of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake