TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benjamin Roth
AU  - Benjamin Roth
TI  - The Great Depression : : a diary
SN  - 9781586489014
U1  - 973.917 ROT 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  -  : PublicAffairs
KW  - History
KW  - Economic history
KW  -  Roth, Benjamin, -- 1894-1978 -- Diaries
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -