The Great Depression

The Great Depression

Author: T. H. Watkins

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Published: 2009-10-29

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780316080439

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This companion volume to the public television series delves into the events and impact of the Great Depression. The text is illustrated throughout with photos, documents, and posters, many previously unpublished.


America in the 1930s

America in the 1930s

Author: Jim Callan

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13:

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The 1930s presented the United States with some of the toughest challenges it had ever faced. The decade started with a prolonged economic depression and ended with the start of World War II.


A Troubled Birth

A Troubled Birth

Author: Susan Herbst

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2021-11-26

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 022681310X

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Introduction: Birth of a Public -- President in the Maelstrom: FDR as Public Opinion Theorist -- Twisted Populism: Pollsters and Delusions of Citizenship -- A Consuming Public: The Strange and Magnificent New York World's Fair -- Radio Embraces Race and Immigration, Awkwardly -- Interlude: A Depression Needn't Be So Depressing -- Public Opinion and Its Problems: Some Ways Forward.


The American 1930s

The American 1930s

Author: Peter Conn

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-02-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0521516404

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A wholly new perspective on the literature and art of the 1930s by a leading scholar of the period.


Frank Lloyd Wright Versus America

Frank Lloyd Wright Versus America

Author: Donald Leslie Johnson

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780262600224

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For his critics and biographers, the 1930s have always been the most challenging period of Frank Lloyd Wright's career. This account uses the architect's long-inaccessable archives at Taliesin West to provide a balanced evaluation of Wright in the 1930s. It separates Wright's design activities from his self-promotion and places his philosophy of individualism within the context of the times.


American Culture in the 1930s

American Culture in the 1930s

Author: David Eldridge

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2008-10-08

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0748629777

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This book provides an insightful overview of the major cultural forms of 1930s America: literature and drama, music and radio, film and photography, art and design, and a chapter on the role of the federal government in the development of the arts. The intellectual context of 1930s American culture is a strong feature, whilst case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade - from War of the Worlds to The Grapes of Wrath and from Edward Hopper to the Rockefeller Centre - help to explain the cultural impulses of radicalism, nationalism and escapism that characterize the United States in the 1930s.


Since Yesterday

Since Yesterday

Author: Frederick Lewis Allen

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-11-22

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13:

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Since Yesterday is Frederick Lewis Allen's sequel to Only Yesterday. Only Yesterday is an informative and popular tell-all history book about American life in the 1920s. Since Yesterday turns this same witty and empathetic energy towards the Great Depression and 1930s America. Excerpt: "Ever since, in Only Yesterday, I tried to tell the story of life in the United States during the nineteen-twenties I have had it in the back of my mind that someday I might make a similar attempt for the nineteen-thirties. I began work on the project late in 1938 and had it three-quarters done by the latter part of the summer of 1939, though I did not yet know how the story would end."


Latin America in the 1930s

Latin America in the 1930s

Author: Rosemary Thorp

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1984-09-20

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1349175544

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This is the new edition of the highly acclaimed Latin America in the 1930s , a text which has proved invaluable for teachers, researchers and students alike. The second edition has been revised and updated, including a new preface and updated statistical material, to form the second volume in An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America . This book confronts the puzzle of Latin America's rapid recovery from the collapse in world markets and capital flows in the late 1920s. It shows how far the safety valves which made recovery possible in the 1930s were not available fifty years later. It documents the impact of crisis on the changing role of the state and on institutional development. The Central American case studies have been updated with significantly improved data.


America in the 1930s

America in the 1930s

Author: Edmund Lindop

Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books

Published: 2009-09-01

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 0761328327

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Outlines the important social, political, economic, cultural, and technological events that happened in the United States from 1930 to 1939.


Depression Folk

Depression Folk

Author: Ronald D. Cohen

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2016-08-26

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1469628821

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While music lovers and music historians alike understand that folk music played an increasingly pivotal role in American labor and politics during the economic and social tumult of the Great Depression, how did this relationship come to be? Ronald D. Cohen sheds new light on the complex cultural history of folk music in America, detailing the musicians, government agencies, and record companies that had a lasting impact during the 1930s and beyond. Covering myriad musical styles and performers, Cohen narrates a singular history that begins in nineteenth-century labor politics and popular music culture, following the rise of unions and Communism to the subsequent Red Scare and increasing power of the Conservative movement in American politics--with American folk and vernacular music centered throughout. Detailing the influence and achievements of such notable musicians as Pete Seeger, Big Bill Broonzy, and Woody Guthrie, Cohen explores the intersections of politics, economics, and race, using the roots of American folk music to explore one of the United States' most troubled times. Becoming entangled with the ascending American left wing, folk music became synonymous with protest and sharing the troubles of real people through song.