The Great Depression
Benjamin Roth ; James Ledbetter ; Daniel B Roth
The Great Depression : a diary /Benjamin Roth - New York : PublicAffairs , 2010. - xxiv, 256 pages ;24 cm.
June 5, 1931-October 17, 1931 --
October 20, 1931-November 11, 1932 --
November 19, 1932-April 22, 1933 --
April 26,1933-December 28, 1933 --
January 10, 1934-November 6, 1936 --
December 4, 1936-September 11, 1939 --
September 12, 1939 --
December 31, 1941.
hen the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary. This collection of those entries reveals another side of the Great Depression,one lived through by ordinary, middle-class Americans, who on a daily basis grappled with a swiftly changing economy coupled with anxiety about the unknown future. Roth's depiction of life in time of widespread foreclosures, a schizophrenic stock market, political unrest and mass unemployment seem to speak directly to readers today.
9781586489014
Brijwasi Book Distributors ;H-87,Lalita Park,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092
History
Economic history-- Roth, Benjamin, -- 1894-1978 -- Diaries.
973.917 ROT
The Great Depression : a diary /Benjamin Roth - New York : PublicAffairs , 2010. - xxiv, 256 pages ;24 cm.
June 5, 1931-October 17, 1931 --
October 20, 1931-November 11, 1932 --
November 19, 1932-April 22, 1933 --
April 26,1933-December 28, 1933 --
January 10, 1934-November 6, 1936 --
December 4, 1936-September 11, 1939 --
September 12, 1939 --
December 31, 1941.
hen the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary. This collection of those entries reveals another side of the Great Depression,one lived through by ordinary, middle-class Americans, who on a daily basis grappled with a swiftly changing economy coupled with anxiety about the unknown future. Roth's depiction of life in time of widespread foreclosures, a schizophrenic stock market, political unrest and mass unemployment seem to speak directly to readers today.
9781586489014
Brijwasi Book Distributors ;H-87,Lalita Park,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092
History
Economic history-- Roth, Benjamin, -- 1894-1978 -- Diaries.
973.917 ROT
