The Great Depression

  • The Great Depression
    By Edmund O. Stillman

    At this juncture, Farley played his last trump card - pressure on the Texas delegation, which until then had been solidly ... Farley and others had previously tried the tactic of calling publisher William Randolph Hearst in California, ...

  • The Great Depression
    By David F. Burg

    ... he was among FDR's closest associates, insiders known as the “Cufflinks Gang” that also included Stephen Early, ... Mayer, Louis B. (1885–1957) movie mogul archetype Born in Minsk, Russia (his family emigrated to the United States), ...

  • The Great Depression
    By Avery Elizabeth Hurt

    When farmers couldn't get enough money for their crops to make back their payments, they had to borrow even more money from banks to keep from going under. Unfortunately, crop prices stayed low, keeping them from being able to repay ...

  • The Great Depression: Its Impact on Forty-six Large American Public Libraries : an Inquiry Based on a Content Analysis of...
    By Robert Scott Kramp

    This dissertation used content analysis to study the impact of the Great Depression on large American public libraries from 1930 to 1940.

  • The Great Depression: Opposing Viewpoints
    By William Dudley

    William Starr Myers and Walter H. Newton , The Hoover Administration : A Documented Narrative . New York : Charles Scribner's Sons , 1936. A chronological narrative of the presidency of Herbert Hoover , with numerous extracts of the ...

  • The Great Depression: An Inquiry Into the Causes, Course, and Consequences of the Worldwide Depression of the Nineteen-thirties, as Seen...
    By John Arthur Garraty, Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History John A Garraty

    14 Lionel Robbins , a youthful professor at the London School of Economics , offered what was probably the most influential contemporary explanation of the length of the downturn in The Great Depression ( 1934 ) .

  • The Great Depression
    By Lionel Robbins Baron Robbins

    Traces the background and the conditions from which the 1929 depression emerged, examining the causes and nature of this global economic tragedy.

  • The Great Depression: An Interactive History Adventure
    By Michael Burgan

    "Describes the people and events of the Great Depression.

  • The Great Depression
    By Michael Burgan

    Describes the events leading up to the Great Depression, and the roles of government leaders such as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge.

  • The Great Depression: An Inquiry Into the Causes, Course, and Consequences of the Worldwide Depression of the Nineteen-thirties, as Seen...
    By John Arthur Garraty

    Inquiring into the worldwide depression of the 1930s and examining its sources and implications, this study focuses on the collapse of the world economy

  • The Great Depression: A Short History
    By Doug West

    Books in this series are fast-paced, accurate, and cover the story in as much detail as a short book possibly can.

  • The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941
    By Robert S. McElvaine

    Depicts a period when widespread poverty, hunger, and misery were assuaged by innovative public programs and the arts A perennial backlist performer.

  • The Great Depression
    By Daniel A. Greenberg

    Describes in detail the physical characteristics, behavior, and migration and life cycle of various kinds of whales, among the largest creatures ever known to have lived on Earth, and discusses the history of human interaction with these ...

  • The Great Depression: A Migrant Mother's Story
    By Dorothy Alexander Sugarman

    A Migrant Mother's Story Dorothy Alexander Sugarman. Isaac Wilkes : Bill Ganzel : Bill Ganzel : But , why would she be angry ? Everyone loved those pictures . Dorothea only took those photos to help the migrant workers .

  • The Great Depression: America 1929-1941
    By Robert S. McElvaine

    In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaine’s sweeping and authoritative history of the Great Depression as one of the best and most readable studies of the era.

  • The Great Depression: A Diary
    By Benjamin Roth

    This collection of those entries reveals another side of the Great Depression—one lived through by ordinary, middle-class Americans, who on a daily basis grappled with a swiftly changing economy coupled with anxiety about the unknown ...

  • The Great Depression: America in the 1930s
    By Tom H. Watkins

    Chronicles the devastation caused by the nation's most serious economic upheaval, offering parallels with America's present economic woes

  • The Great Depression
    By Lionel Robbins

    This splendid book by Robbins presented the entire cause and remedy - in 1934! Rothbard himself says that this book is one of two excellent studies.

  • The Great Depression
    By Nathaniel Harris

    Describes the Great Depression or 1929-1941 and its impact on the United States and other areas of the world.

  • The Great Depression: A History Just for Kids
    By KidCaps

    And so begins the fascinating history of the Great Depression. It's hard to imagine America ever faced times so hard, but in this book, just for kids, you'll find out what happened and what it was like to be a kid during these times.