Depression Books


The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl Best Price: $8.20 When I asked my Grandparents about the dust bowl, they would not say much at all about it -...	Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression Best Price: $6.65 I know everyone loved this book. The New York Times Book Review named it one of the 10 best...	The Great Crash 1929 Best Price: $8.15 Galbraith does an excellent job in demonstrating how the private sector commercial bankers'...	Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression Best Price: $10.24 History is more than the story of big, important men making important decisions. Any worthy...	Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression Best Price: $7.75 As a former grad student in History, I found this book fascinating. Author Studs Terkel...



Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times Best Price: $12.60 In the story of Hallie Flanagan, Susan Quinn explores a transformative movement in American...	American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work Best Price: $15.00 Engagingly written and well (if skimpily) illustrated. However, the chapters on the Writers' and...	FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression Best Price: $8.44 Unfortunately, many historians and modern politicians praise FDR's New Deal because of the...	A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era Best Price: $11.17 Steven Diner's A Very Different Age is a social history of the common man during the...	Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression Best Price: $7.50 Coughlin and the Kingfish were both public personalities who seized on the uncertainties and...



Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 Best Price: $19.43 Cohen presents a seemingly broad and well-supported thesis to explain the success of unionism in...	Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939 Best Price: $45.98 'Since Yesterday' (1940) is a journalistic history of the 1930's in America. Frederick Lewis...	Rethinking the Great Depression (American Ways Series) Best Price: $11.30 This is a brief and relatively easy to read monetarist review of 'the great depression'. It is...	Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States) Best Price: $17.95 Kennedy vindicates the editors' choice to devote an entire volume of the Oxford History series...	No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II Best Price: $19.90 "Team of Rivals" remains my favorite Doris Kearns Goodwin book. But this is a very...

Ava's Man Best Price: $4.73 Ava's man was Bragg's maternal grandfather who passed away before Rick was born into poverty. ...	Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement Best Price: $22.00 The Great Depression coincided with a wave of natural disasters, including the Dust Bowl and...	12 Million Black Voices Best Price: $10.26 I'm always impressed with writings by Richard Wright. This book took me on a written and...	Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) Best Price: $19.75 Like a Family interestingly and accurately portrays life in southern cotton mills and mill towns...	The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $5.30 As a concise overview, this book is excellent. Rauchway covers the background of the Great...

The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope Best Price: $2.89 The first 100 days of FDR's first administration are the focal point of this recently published...	Two Ton: One Night, One Fight -Tony Galento v. Joe Louis Best Price: $8.29 The book should be of great interest to living boxing or history fans who remember the era and...	Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939 Best Price: $6.59 This is a truly brilliant book. It highlights the fact that political and economic crises often...	Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man Best Price: $16.75 When I was a child, my older relatives would occasionally talk about the depression. While I...	The Greatest Generation Best Price: $1.20 Tom Brokaw has brought forth one of the most inspiring and touching accounts ever written.The...

The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s Best Price: $11.25 Apparently I'm the only one disappointed by this book. I found it a mish-mash of political,...	Hemingway's Hurricane Best Price: $7.98 The hurricane that hit the Florida Keys in 1935 is still listed as the most intense hurricane to...	Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California (Americans and the California Dream) Best Price: $13.75 Any history book by Kevin Starr is worth reading. I'm working my way through all of them. He is...	Road Without End: On the Run with Bonnie & Clyde Best Price: $11.53 A stunning, slash-of-life reportage laying bare the nitty-gritty lives of Bonnie and Clyde; a...	The Great Depression: An International Disaster of Perverse Economic Policies Best Price: $21.55 This was a very hard to read, boring book that outlines the same basic principles for hundreds...

Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929 (Pivotal Moments in American History) Best Price: $5.92 At Rainbow's End provides a succinct yet through look at the Great Depression and how it changed...	Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1: 1884-1933 Best Price: $5.45 For many Americans, Eleanor Roosevelt is more a myth than an actual person. In the Museum of...	New Deal, The Best Price: $16.24 2008 marks the 75th anniversary of the New Deal, the series of programs initiated by President...	Culture and Politics in the Great Depression (Charles Edmondson Historical Lectures) (Charles Edmondson Historical Lectures) Best Price: $15.95 Professor Brinkley looks at the time in American history when the idea of the American dream...	The Great Hurricane: 1938 Best Price: $4.29 I took this book on vacation in Maine to read it at the beach. I know there were a lot of...

Red Chicago: American Communism at its Grassroots, 1928-35 (Working Class in American History) Best Price: $27.97 This books was so interesting I couldn't put it down. The insight into this time in history was...	Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression Best Price: $18.40 The intent is certainly noble and of utmost importance but I believe the author should have...	Children of the Great Depression, 25th Anniversary Edition Best Price: $29.25 The book greatly explains the depression through unbaised eyes. I had to read this book for a...	Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932 (American Presidential Elections) Best Price: $23.96 "Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932" is an unassumingly titled volume, but...	Dream Lucky: When FDR was in the White House, Count Basie was on the radio, and everyone wore a hat... Best Price: $11.99 This is a highly readable account of a by-gone era, aptly titled. Although I was not born until...

The Politics of Upheaval: 1935-1936, The Age of Roosevelt, Volume III (The Age of Roosevelt) Best Price: $3.60 The history of politics in the 20th century is found in these volumes on the life and times of...	The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever Best Price: $5.68 Careful textbooks in my home state, Minnesota, portray Charles Lindbergh as an...	The Gashouse Gang: How Dizzy Dean, Leo Durocher, Branch Rickey, Pepper Martin, and Their Colorful, Come-from-Behind Ball Club Won the World Series- and America's Heart-During the Great Depression Best Price: $8.84 When I was a boy, I used to watch Dizzy Dean and Buddy Blatner (later, Peewee Reese) on the...	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South Best Price: $17.85 James Agee's painstaking and honest masterpiece is an exercise in empathy. It is a beautiful,...	Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Relationship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley Best Price: $25.04 A fascinating book. If you like history, particularly the Roosevelt era, it is the day-to-day...

The Bonus Army: An American Epic Best Price: $1.74 In the Prologue, the authors state victorious war veterans have long vexed politicians noting...	Happy Days Are Here Again: The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence of FDR--and How America Was Changed Forever Best Price: $2.76 1932 was a pivotal year in American history. The Great Depression was in full swing, the wet...	The 1938 Hurricane Along New England's Coast (Images of America) Best Price: $15.99 This book is based upon a "large picture collection of the aftermath of the 1938 hurricane...	"Or Does It Explode?": Black Harlem in the Great Depression Best Price: $27.00 The Great Depression was a time of hardship for many Americans, but for the citizens of Harlem...	Front Lines of Social Change: Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Best Price: $4.90 From the battle lines of an unfamiliar and near-forgotten war a group of people emerged who have...

Climax: The History of Colorado's Climax Molybdenum Mine This book looked like it would be dry and somewhat "technical", but I picked it up...	Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2 , The Defining Years, 1933-1938 Best Price: $2.49 In the first volume of her series on Eleanor Roosevelt, Blanche Wiesen Cook, a historian and...	The Ghosts of Hopewell: Setting the Record Straight in the Lindbergh Case Best Price: $18.54 "The Ghosts of Hopewell: Setting the Record Straight in the Lindbergh Case", Jim...	Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center Best Price: $0.42 Although a slow read, this book is well worth having in your history collection. It fills in...

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