Caught Short! A Saga of Wailing Wall Street.

As a financier and stock market operator his experience is intensely real, and truly representative of the excitements and despairs of millions of his fellow-Americans. This intimate and candid memoir of his own Wall Street adventure was written by Eddie Cantor himself while the frenzied ticker was still sputtering forth the news of the country's most violent stock market crisis. As travesty, however, "its spirit, sir, is one of mockery."