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This history of the Great Depression in the United States covers the period from the stock-market crash up to the advent of World War II. The author had the advantage of having lived through this period himself.

Dancing in the Dark shows how our worst economic crisis, as it eroded American individualism and punctured the American dream, produced in the 1930s some of the greatest writing, photography, and mass entertainment ever seen in this country.

In this revelatory book, Timothy Snyder offers a groundbreaking investigation of Europe's killing fields and a sustained explanation of the motives and methods of both Hitler and Stalin. He anchors the history of Hitler's Holocaust and Stalin's Terror in their time and place and provides a fresh account of the relationship between the two regime.

Discusses the political, economic, and cultural life of one of the pivotal decades of the twentieth century, a period of transition and crisis for the nation and for its citizens.

The first account of the remarkable 18-month journey of Lorena Hickok, intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, throughout the country during the worst of the Great Depression, bearing witness to the unprecedented ravages; an indelible portrait of an unprecedented crisis.

Through photographs, illustrations, and both factual and fictionalized anecdotes, shows what life was like in the United States during the Depression.

Through photographs, illustrations, and both factual and fictionalized anecdotes, Kit travels from Cincinnati to Glacier Park, Montana in 1934.

[v.4. We have a plan]: The story of socialist author Upton Sinclair's 1934 run for governor of California is told. Sinclair's epic plan to end poverty in California called for seizing unused factories and fields (and film studios) and turning them over to the unemployed to run as self-managing cooperatives. Sinclair won the Democratic nomination and received 900,000 votes against the Republican incumbent. In the process he scared the pants off California's...