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The authors foresee that the 1990s will be even more difficult than the 1987 crash with the bankruptcy of the welfare state; the breakup of many large institutions, including a number of nation-states; deeper declines of real estate prices; debt implosion; and the insolvency of many consumers and corporations.

The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.

Compiles a history of the Great Depression, including the events that led up to it and the New Deal that followed, with chronologies, personal narratives, and documents.

It's the 1930's in Waxahachie, Texas. Against this Depression-torn background unforgettable characters meet and collide. Its emotionally gripping story centers around Edna Spalding (Sally Fields) and her unending struggle against extraordinary hardships.

An account of the causes, events, effects, and aftermath of the financial panic and crash of 1929 that was the beginning of the Great Depression.

Howard Zinn discusses the World Wars and the Great Depression, rejects the view of World War II as the Good War and articulating his opposition to war. He discusses anti-black race riots after WWI. He criticizes post-WWII military interventions, and discusses the way in which the "Good War" narrative of WWII emboldens these efforts. He talks about the how near-revolutionary atmosphere pressured FDR to implement the New Deal.

"It is an accepted truism that the Great Depression did more for the development of modern economics than any other single event. Some of the greatest economists of the twentieth century were inspired to go into the field as a direct result of their experiences during this period." "This book is about the most prominent economic explanations of the Great Depression and how it affected the lives, experiences, and subsequent thinking of economists...

The Great Depression crashed upon America in 1929. This program profiles Herbert Hoover, president from 1929 to 1933, and Huey Long - governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932, senator from 1932 to 1935, presidential hopeful, and victim of assassination - murdered at the height of his popularity.

In the 1960s, Americans embraced the liberal promises and programs of two presidents: John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson. Kennedy, the East Coast blue blood; Johnson the rough-and-tumble Texan, could not have been more different. Yet each embraced the legacy of Franklin Roosevelt and sought to reshape the New Deal into their own world vision. For Kennedy, it was the New Frontier; for Johnson, the Great Society. Each had its triumphs and failures,...