Down & out in the Great Depression : letters from the forgotten man / edited by Robert S. McElvaine ; with a new foreword by the editor.
Down and Out in the Great Depression is a moving, revealing collection of letters by the forgotten men, women, and children who suffered through one of the greatest periods of hardship in American history. Sifting through some 15,000 letters from government and private sources, Robert McElvaine has...
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| Other title: | Down and out in the Great Depression |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2008.
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| Edition: | 25th anniversary ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: The Early Depression; Part II: Conditions of Life in the Thirties; Part III: Reactions to the Depression; Part IV: The "Forgotten Man" Looks at Roosevelt; Notes; Sources of Letters; Index.