Down & out in the Great Depression : letters from the forgotten man / edited by Robert S. McElvaine ; with a new foreword by the editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McElvaine, Robert S., 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Depressions--1929--United States--Sources.

Depressions.

United States--Social conditions--1933-1945--Sources.

United States.

United States--Social life and customs--1918-1945--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

25th anniversary ed.

Other Title:

Down and out in the Great Depression

Down and Out in the Great Depression.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 culled nearly 200 communications that best show the problems, thoughts, and emotions of ordinary people during this time.Unlike views of Depression life ""from the bottom up"" that rely on recollections recorded several decades later, this book captures the daily anguish of people dur

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908833-4-6

979-88-9313-333-2

1-4696-0481-7

0-8078-9881-3

OCLC:

609695214