| Description |
234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
History firsthand |
|
History firsthand.
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-228) and index. |
| Contents |
IT STARTED ON WALL STREET: The Crash / Matthew Josephson -- Picking up the pieces / Arthur Robertson -- Business as usual / William Benton -- OUT OF WORK, OUT OF LUCK: Waiting was the worst part / Meridel Le Sueur -- The grandest Hooverville of them all / W. W. Waters -- Them that needs / Slim Jackson -- Hard times in Harlem / Anna Arnold Hedgeman -- MAKING A BUCK: Passing the time on your feet / June Havoc -- The work was never steady / Henry Boucher -- An artist in hard times / Frank W. Long -- A hard life in the Harlan mines / "Sudy" Gates -- OUT ON THE FARMS: The small farmer has got it much harder / Jackson Bullitt -- United in the fields / Ella Reeve Bloor -- Moving to the city / Calvin and Lola Simmons -- The Dust Bowl / Ann Marie Low -- TAKING IT ON THE ROAD: The road out of town / Benjamin Appel -- Riding the rails / John Fawcett -- Sister of the road / Box-Car Bertha -- Life in the jungle / Eric Sevareid -- THE NEW DEAL: Bold, persistent experimentation / Rexford G. Tugwell -- The first year: 1933 / Eleanor Roosevelt -- The CCC changed my life / Stanley Watson. |
| Subject |
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
|
| Added Author |
Nishi, Dennis, 1967-
|
| ISBN |
073770411X lib. alkaline paper |
|
0737704101 paperback alkaline paper |
|
