It was apropos that the newly renovated Waldorf Astoria New York was the scene where a roomful of power brokers toasted Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book “1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History – and How It Shattered a Nation” this week.

The Astor family sold the hotel (then in a different location) in 1929 to the developers of the Empire State Building, and financing was set up for the new Park Avenue address before the stock market infamously tanked.

The “Too Big to Fail” author hosted an A-list cocktail party to mark the launch of his latest tome about the crash.

Guests mixing included JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Martha Stewart, Barry Diller, Julianna Margulies, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Gayle King, former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, NBA Commissioner Ad

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