The Great Depression : a diary / Benjamin Roth ; edited by James Ledbetter and Daniel B. Roth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roth, Benjamin, 1894-1978.

Contributor:

Ledbetter, James.

Roth, Daniel B., 1929-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roth, Benjamin, 1894-1978--Diaries.

Roth, Benjamin.

Depressions--1929--United States.

Depressions.

United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : PublicAffairs, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary. This collection of those entries reveals another side of the Great Depression—one lived through by ordinary, middle-class Americans, who on a daily basis grappled with a swiftly changing economy coupled with anxiety about the unknown future. Roth's depiction of life in time of widespread foreclosures, a schizophrenic stock market, political unrest and mass unemployment seem to speak directly to readers today.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; For Further Reading; Acknolwedgments; About the Author & Editors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-48719-1

9786612487194

1-58648-837-6

OCLC:

609853838