PLUMMER (A. Newton).
The Great American Swindle, Incorporated.
A mea culpa of sorts for the author’s role in falsely inflating stock values in the 1920s bull market, ultimately contributing to the market’s spectacular implosion in 1929, self-published by the author in an edition of 2,000 copies. Newton Plummer was a stock promoter and corporate publicist, responsible for planting stories in the press to draw publicity to pooled stocks. His scrapbooks, which form the basis of the present work, were later cited in evidence by Congressman Fiorello La Guardia at the Pecora Commission of 1932, an inquiry tasked with investigating the causes of the Wall Street Crash.
