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

• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2008
• Edizione: 25th anniversary ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.91
• Soggetto topico: Depressions - 1929 - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Social conditions 1933-1945 Sources; United States Social life and customs 1918-1945 Sources
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: McElvaineRobert S. <1947->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Down & out in the Great Depression
• ISBN: 1-4696-0481-7; 0-8078-9881-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456408003321
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