The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America
- ISBN-10
- 0805065067
- ISBN-13
- 9780805065060
- Series
- The Hungry Years
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 587
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-09
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- T. H. Watkins
Description
A collection of oral histories, memories, researched monographs, and newspaper reports capture the experience of the Great Depression as lived by ordinary people, chronologically following the huge economic crisis as it developed and showing its wide-ranging effects. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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