So it’s appropriate that Andrew Ross Sorkin, a New York Times journalist and the author of a justly celebrated thriller on the 2008 crash, “Too Big to Fail,” has selected 1929 as the subject of his latest book. Eight years in the making, “1929” is a more ambitious project than “Too Big to Fail,” informed by the papers of various Wall Street titans from the past century, an unpublished memoir and previously undisclosed Federal Reserve Bank of New York deliberations, along with hundreds of books and newspaper articles.