The banking crisis of 1933 / Susan Esfabrook Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, Susan Estabrook, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Banks and banking--United States.

Banks and banking.

Banking law--United States.

Banking law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 1973.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On March 6, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt, less than forty-eight hours after becoming president, ordered the suspension of all banking facilities in the United States. How the nation had reached such a desperate situation and how it responded to the banking ""holiday"" are examined in this book, the first full-length study of the crisis.Although the 1920's had witnessed a wave of bank failures, the situation worsened after the 1929 stock market crash, and by the winter of 1932-1933, complete banking collapse threatened much of the nation. President Hoover's stopgap measures proved totally inadequate

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Chapter; Acknowledgments; I. PROSPERITY AND DEPRESSION; II. HOOVER'S SOLUTIONS; III. LECTION AND INTERREGNUM; IV. MICHIGAN; V. INVESTIGATION; VI. EXIT HOOVER; VII. ENTER ROOSEVELT; VIII. REOPENING; IX. THE BANKING ACT OF 1933; X. CONCLUSION; Selected Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis, Columbia University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813163307

0813163307

OCLC:

707585148