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Includes information on banks, Civilian Conservation Corps, communism, farming, flophouses, Hoovervilles, housing conditions, hunger immigrant experience, jungles, labor unions, Negroes, police, Public Works Administration, relief, scabs, sharecroppers, tenant farmers, sitdown strikes, Tennessee Valley Administration, unemployment, women workers, Works Progress Administration, etc.
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Our daily bread (King Vidor, 1934) is a depression-era drama in which a young couple leads a group of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed. Includes a prologue to the movie by King Vidor -- The fake newsreels "California Election News #1 and #2 (1934), were secretly produced by MGM as "dirty tricks" in the film industry's political war against Upton Sinclair -- The River (Pare Lorentz, 1937) dramatizes the stripping of the Mississipi...
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The Great Depression was a pivotal period in our nation's history. This annotated bibliography guides readers to biographies, oral histories, memoirs, recollections, photograph collections, fiction and nonfiction books, picture books, international resources and other reference sources. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) state guides are included, as well as literature about the federal theatre, arts, and music projects. A comprehensive listing...
11) A stranger here
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One of folk music's most enduring icons performs a collection of Depression-era blues songs that still resonate during today's turbulent times.
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Touches on various aspects of life, year by year, from 1928 to 1940, such as dating customs, the rise of book clubs, film and radio favorites, and rates of malnutrition in American children. In the economic sphere, the author discusses the causes of the Depression and the philosophies and programs of the various New Deal agencies.
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On October 29th, 1929, the boom era of the Jazz Age came to a crashing halt on Wall Street. The dramatic effects of the Great Depression and New Deal are the main topics of this program. Despite the country's economic collapse, major public works projects such as the Hoover Dam offered proof of the industrial and technological might of the United States - and of the undeniable abilities of the American worker.
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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...
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"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...
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