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Seattle in the Great Depression : a history of business, labor, and politics drawn from local chronicles / Bruce A. Ramsey.
Lippincott Library HB3754.S34 R36 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ramsey, Bruce A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Depressions--1929--Washington (State)--Seattle.
- Depressions.
- Seattle (Wash.)--History--20th century.
- Seattle (Wash.).
- Physical Description:
- ix, 343 pages : illustrations, 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Pullman, Washington : Washington State University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Capturing stories from Seattle newspapers and other sources, this narrative history traces a turbulent decade that scarred a generation and defined years of policy and culture-from the city's real estate depression, savings and loan failures, and waterfront Hooverville, to its political fights over unemployment assistance, intense business rivalries, union growth, and more"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Top of the world, 1929
- Denial, 1930
- Bankers, 1931-32
- The bottom, 1931-32
- Homeless, 1931-41
- Relief, 1931-35
- Hope, 1932-36
- The Blue Eagle, 1933-35
- The left rises, 1932-35
- The labor push, 1934-37
- Dave Beck, 1931-38
- John Dore, 1932-38
- J.D. Ross, 1930-39
- The popular front, 1936-38
- The front shatters, 1937-39
- The great builder, 1930-39
- Up, down, and up again, 1936-39
- Enterprise, 1933-39
- Forward from hard times.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780874224320
- 0874224322
- OCLC:
- 1465266217
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