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Author Swados, Harvey, editor.

Title The American writer and the great depression.

Publication Info. Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill [1966]

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  810.8 SWADOS    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  810.8 SW12    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  810.8    Check Shelf
Description xli, 521 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Series The American heritage series, AHS63
Bibliography Bibliography: page xxxvii-xli.
Contents PART ONE -- Miners, millhands, factory workers: Missouri, Tennessee, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Washington -- PART TWO -- Farmers; sharecroppers, tenants, migrants -- PART THREE -- Hungry women and faltering homes: Minnesota, Colorado, New York -- PART FOUR -- Jobhunting: everywhere -- PART FIVE -- Hitting bottom: on the road, in the ring, on the bum -- PART SIX -- Concern and hope: vets, Negroes, CIO, TVA, CCC -- PART SEVEN -- Organizers, capitalists, fascists, communists: guys like me and you -- PART EIGHT -- American: the grand view.
Summary Includes information on banks, Civilian Conservation Corps, communism, farming, flophouses, Hoovervilles, housing conditions, hunger immigrant experience, jungles, labor unions, Negroes, police, Public Works Administration, relief, scabs, sharecroppers, tenant farmers, sitdown strikes, Tennessee Valley Administration, unemployment, women workers, Works Progress Administration, etc.
Subject American literature -- 20th century.
Depressions -- Literary collections.
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