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The Great Depression : America, 1929-1941 /Robert S McElvaine

By: Robert S McElvaineContributor(s): Robert S McElvaineMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: Brijwasi Book Distributors | ;H-87,Lalita Park,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092Publication details: New York : Times Books , ©1993Description: xxx, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 9780812923278Subject(s): HistoryGenre/Form: Economic historyDDC classification: 973.916 MCE

Contents:

Foreword to the First Edition -- Introduction to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition -- Chapter 1: Historical Currents and the Great Depression -- Chapter 2: Who Was Roaring in the Twenties?-Origins of the Great Depression -- Chapter 3: In the Right Place at the Wrong Time?-Herbert Hoover -- Chapter 4: Nature Takes Its Course: the First Years of the Depression -- Chapter 5: The Lord of the Manor: FDR -- Chapter 6: "And What Was Dead Was Hope": 1932 and the Interregnum -- Chapter 7-"Action and Action Now": The Hundred Days and Beyond -- Chapter 8: "Fear Itself": Depression Life -- Chapter 9: Moral Economics: American Values and Culture in the Great Depression -- Chapter 10: Thunder on the Left: Rising Unrest, 1934-35 -- Chapter 11: "I'm That Kind of Liberal Because I'm That Kind of Conservative" " The Second New Deal -- Chapter 12: New Hickory: The WPA, the Election of 1936, and the Court Fight -- Chapter 13: The CIO and the Later New Deal -- Chapter 14: "Dr. New Deal" Runs Out of Medicine: The Last Years of the Depression, 1939-41 -- Chapter 15: Perspective: The Great Depression and Modern America -- Notes -- Index.

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

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Foreword to the First Edition --
Introduction to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition --
Chapter 1: Historical Currents and the Great Depression --
Chapter 2: Who Was Roaring in the Twenties?-Origins of the Great Depression --
Chapter 3: In the Right Place at the Wrong Time?-Herbert Hoover --
Chapter 4: Nature Takes Its Course: the First Years of the Depression --
Chapter 5: The Lord of the Manor: FDR --
Chapter 6: "And What Was Dead Was Hope": 1932 and the Interregnum --
Chapter 7-"Action and Action Now": The Hundred Days and Beyond --
Chapter 8: "Fear Itself": Depression Life --
Chapter 9: Moral Economics: American Values and Culture in the Great Depression --
Chapter 10: Thunder on the Left: Rising Unrest, 1934-35 --
Chapter 11: "I'm That Kind of Liberal Because I'm That Kind of Conservative" " The Second New Deal --
Chapter 12: New Hickory: The WPA, the Election of 1936, and the Court Fight --
Chapter 13: The CIO and the Later New Deal --
Chapter 14: "Dr. New Deal" Runs Out of Medicine: The Last Years of the Depression, 1939-41 --
Chapter 15: Perspective: The Great Depression and Modern America --
Notes --
Index.

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

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