Ads
related to: great depression people and perspectives bookamazon.com has been visited by 1M+ users in the past month
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 is a 1999 nonfiction book by the American historian David M. Kennedy. Published as part of the Oxford History of the United States, Freedom from Fear covers the history of the United States during the Great Depression and World War II. It won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for ...
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (original: 1970/ latest edition: 2005) is a telling of the oral history of the Great Depression written by Studs Terkel. It is a firsthand account of people of varying socio-economic status who lived in the United States during the Great Depression. The first edition of the book was published ...
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression is a book by Amity Shlaes published by HarperCollins in 2007. The book is a re-analysis of the events of the Great Depression, generally from a free market perspective. The book criticizes Herbert Hoover and the Smoot-Hawley Tariff as
Non-fiction books about the Great Depression (1929-1939). Pages in category "Non-fiction books about the Great Depression" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
In the 1930s during the Great Depression, cash was tight for working-class and middle-class Americans — so money toward nonessentials, including the arts, dried up as people saved what ...
The term "The Great Depression" is most frequently attributed to British economist Lionel Robbins, whose 1934 book The Great Depression is credited with formalizing the phrase, [230] though Hoover is widely credited with popularizing the term, [230] [231] informally referring to the downturn as a depression, with such uses as "Economic ...
Great Depression: People and Perspectives (2009), social history excerpt and text search; Dickstein, Morris. Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression (2009) excerpt and text search; Field, Alexander J.
Lawmakers called for California to commemorate the 1930s Mexican Repatriation, when nearly two million people of Mexican descent were deported. California must recognize historic forced ...