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"A Halsted Press book." Bibliography: p. 174-176.

Between 1933 and 1935, Lorena Hickok traveled across thirty-two states as a "confidential investigator" for Harry Hopkins, head of FDR's Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Her assignment was to gather information about the day-to-day toll the Depression was exacting on individual citizens. "One Third of a Nation" is her record, underscored by the eloquent photographs of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and others, of the shocking plight of millions...

Depression city, by D. M. Katzman.--Unemployment relief in Philadelphia, 1930-1932, by B. F. Schwartz.--Communists and Fascists in a Southern city: Atlanta, 1930, by J. H. Moore.--The depression in Harlem, by Federal Writers Project.--Frantic farmers fight law, by F. D. DiLeva.--The Farmers Holiday Association strike, August 1932, by J. L. Shover.--The economic effects of drouth and depression upon Custer County, 1929-1942, by M. C. Latta.--The Harlan...

By examining the uneven fate of manufacturing industries during the 1930s, Michael Bernstein presents a powerful new interpretation of the Great Depression. The depth and persistence of the slump, he argues, cannot be explained by cyclical theories alone, but by the conjunction of a crisis in financial markets with a long-run transformation in the kinds of goods and services required by firms and households. By focusing on evidence from specific industries,...

The author captures all the drama of the economic events and shows how the entire world was experiencing a year of crisis.

A collection of excerpts from various books, reports, etc. detailing life in the U.S. during the Great Depression, including chapters on labor unions, religion, the Civilian Conservation Corps, etc.

How did the New Deal change American life? This book of readings examines different historians' interpretations of and insights into the answer and the question. This historical debate offers different estimates and explanations of how the New Deal changed America in the 1930s, how it affects America today, and what might be done to bring about new change. - Back cover.

Acclaimed author Eric Burns investigates the year of 1920, which was not only a crucial twelve-month period of its own, but one that foretold the future, foreshadowing the rest of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, whether it was Sacco and Vanzetti or the stock market crash that brought this era to a close.