| Description |
xxx, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-385) and index. |
| Subject |
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
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New Deal, 1933-1939.
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United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
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United States -- History -- 1919-1933.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.
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United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.
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| ISBN |
0812923278: $14.00 ($18.50 Can.) |
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