The Great Depression

Robert S McElvaine

The Great Depression : America, 1929-1941 /Robert S McElvaine - New York : Three Rivers Press , ©2009. - xxx, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Historical Currents and the Great Depression --
Who Was Roaring in the Twenties?-Origins of the Great Depression --
In the Right Place at the Wrong Time?-Herbert Hoover --
Nature Takes Its Course: The First Years of the Depression --
The Lord of the Manor: FDR --
"And What Was Dead Was Hope": 1932 and the Interregnum --
"Action, and Action Now": The Hundred Days and Beyond --
"Fear Itself": Depression Life --
Moral Economics: American Values and Culture in the Great Depression --
Thunder on the Left: Rising Unrest, 1934-35 --
"I'm That Kind of Liberal Because I'm That Kind of Conservative": The Second New Deal --
New Hickory: The WPA, the Election of 1936, and the Court Fight --
The CIO and the Later New Deal --
"Dr. New Deal" Runs Out of Medicine: The Last Years of the Depression, 1939-41 --
Perspective: The Great Depression and Modern America.

Depicts a period when widespread poverty, hunger, and misery were assuaged by innovative public programs and the arts.

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United States -- History -- 1933-1945.--United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.

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