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America 1933 : the Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the shaping of the New Deal / Michael Golay.
Van Pelt Library PN4874.H477 G65 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Golay, Michael, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hickok, Lorena A.
- Investigative reporting--United States--History--20th century.
- Investigative reporting.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- United States--History--1933-1945.
- United States.
- Depressions--1929--United States.
- Depressions.
- United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
- Economic conditions.
- United States--Social conditions--1918-1945.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 316 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Free Press hardcover edition.
- Other Title:
- America nineteen thirty three
- America nineteen hundred and thirty three
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Free Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- The first account of the remarkable 18-month journey of Lorena Hickok, intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, throughout the country during the worst of the Great Depression, bearing witness to the unprecedented ravages; an indelible portrait of an unprecedented crisis.
- Contents:
- Muffled figures, bitter winds
- View to a New Deal
- Part of the story
- Coal country
- Strandees
- The ghosts of Wall Street
- America's Siberia
- "The richest village in the world"
- The stricken South
- Empire of misery
- Prospects.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-301) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781439196014
- 143919601X
- OCLC:
- 800031943
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