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The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror (1st Edition) by Beverly Gage (Yale University) Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-19-514824-X / 019514824X ISBN-13: 978-0-19-514824-4 / 9780195148244 Just after noon on September 16, 1920, as hundreds of workers poured onto Wall Street for their lunchtime break, a horse-drawn cart packed with dynamite exploded in a spray of metal and fire, turning the busiest corner of the financial center into a war zone. Thirty-nine people died and hundreds mor |