From the Crash to the Blitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Cabell.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (614 pages)

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : Fordham University Press, 2000.

Summary:

In unforgettable words and images, Cabell Phillips takes the reader from the crash of the stock market to the crash of bombs in Poland. The journey was a monumental one for Americans—a time of bitterness and despair, of failure and hunger and want, but also of rebirth. The New Deal was part of a social revolution, a recreation of the American experiment. In popular culture, too, the decade beginning with 1929 saw a new flowering in music, in radio, and in the movies—now equipped with sound tracks. In baseball, America’s pastime, the decade saw the exit of the mighty Babe and the coming of the great DiMaggio and Ted Williams; the Brown Bomber, Joe Louis, dominated boxing. More ominously, overseas, dictators and militarists were on the march across Europe and Asia. Soon, Americans would be drawn into the whirlwind. Phillips’s goal has been “to tell you not only what happened but what it was like to be there.” His sources were the files of The New York Times and the leading periodicals of the day, histories, memoirs, diaries, and government reports. Together, text and photographs offer a total historical experience of a decade in the life of a nation shadowed by depression, heading toward war, vibrating with its own frenzied excitement.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

INTRODUCTION TO THE 2000 EDITION

PREFACE

1 WINTER OF DESPAIR: 1932-1933

2 COLLISION COURSE-and CRASH!

3 CRASH AND AFTERMATH: 1929-1932

4 COUP d'ETAT: 1932

5 INTERLUDE: NOVEMBER 1932 to MARCH 193

6 INAUGURAL: 1932

7 THE HUNDRED DAYS: MARCH TO JUNE 1933

8 DECLINE OF THE MONEYMEN

9 ALMANAC: 1933-1934

10 FLIGHT OF THE BLUE EAGLE: NRA

11 A NEW DEAL FOR THE FARMER: AAA and FSA

12 "END POVERTY IN AMERICA"

13 ALMANAC: 1935-1937

14 POPULAR CULTURE-HIGHBROW

15 POPULAR CULTURE-MIDDLEBROW

16 THE SECOND NEW DEAL: HIGH NOON to DUSK

17 A NEW DEAL for LABOR

18 UP from ISOLATIONISM

19 THE DAYS of PEACE RUN OUT: 1938-1939

NOTES

PHOTO CREDITS

INDEX

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-8232-9572-9

OCLC:

1309048388