Title The 1930s (1930-1939) / editor, Michael Shally-Jensen, PhD.

Publication Info.	Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2014]
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Edition	[First edition].
Description	1 online resource (xiv, 318 pages).
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Series	Defining documents in American history
	Defining documents in American history.
Note	Edition statement supplied by publisher.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents	Setting up the New Deal. President Roosevelt: Fireside chat on "The forgotten man" ; FDR on government's role in the economy ; Herbert Hoover speaks against the New Deal ; Letter from Herbert Hoover to Franklin D. Roosevelt ; President Roosevelt: Fireside chat outlining the New Deal ; John Maynard Keynes: An open letter to President Roosevelt ; Letter-report concerning the Tennessee Valley ; FDR on Social Security ; Speech against the president's "court packing" plan ; President Roosevelt: Fireside chat on the current recession ; The Hatch Act -- Unemployment and relief. Bumming in California ; United we eat -- the phenomenon of unemployed leagues ; Letter from a Dust Bowl survivor ; Letter regarding assistance to the poor ; Memories of the Flint sit-down strike ; It's a great life in the CCC ; I'd rather not be on relief ; What REA service means to our farm home ; My hopes for the CCC -- Women, minorities, and youth. Women on the breadlines ; Eleanor Roosevelt: what ten million women want ; Eleanor Roosevelt on women and the vote ; The repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans ; The hurricane of 1932 in Puerto Rico ; A New Deal for American Indians ; Indians at work ; A Negro in the CCC ; Letter regarding the needs of Puerto Ricans in New York ; Plea from a Scottsboro boy ; Dear Mrs. Roosevelt ; Our jobless youth: a warning ; What does American democracy mean to me? -- The Bonus Army. Herbert Hoover to Reed Smoot regarding the Bonus Loan Bill ; Attack on the Bonus Army ; Veterans march to Washington -- Foreign policy. Henry Stimson to Senator Borah regarding the Nine-Power Treaty ; Criticism of the Neutrality Act ; Neutrality Act of 1935 ; Defense of the Neutrality Act ; Address delivered by the Secretary of State ; Winston Churchill: The lights are going out in Europe ; Winston Churchill: A hush over Europe ; Charles Lindbergh: Neutrality and war -- Culture, crime, and more. The national anthem established: The Star Spangled Banner ; What I knew about John Dillinger ; The Hindenburg disaster ; From the Federal Writers' Project: Cape Cod Pilot ; On The War of the Worlds radio broadcast ; Lou Gehrig farewell to baseball.
Summary	This important resource provides readers with many new ways to explore the 1930s in American history, as the country was immersed in the Great Depression. The text provides in-depth analysis of forty primary source documents to deliver a thorough examination of this important time in American history. - Amazon.
Subject	United States -- History -- 1919-1933 -- Sources.
	United States -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Sources.
	United States -- Politics and government -- 1929-1933 -- Sources.
	United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945 -- Sources.
	United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932 -- Sources.
	United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945 -- Sources.
	United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945 -- Sources.
	Nineteen thirties.
	HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
	Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
	Nineteen thirties. (OCoLC)fst01037830
	Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1918-1945
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
Added Author	Shally-Jensen, Michael, editor.
	Salem Press.
Added Title	Nineteen thirties (1930-1939)
Other Form:	Print version: 1930s (1930-1939). [First edition] 9781619254954 (OCoLC)892340536
ISBN	9781619254961 (electronic bk.)
	1619254964 (electronic bk.)

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