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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.

Soul of a People is about a handful of people who were on the Federal Writer's Project in the 1930s and a glimpse of America at a turning point. This particular handful of characters went from poverty to great things later, and included John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Studs Terkel. In the 1930s they were all caught up in an effort to describe America in a series of WPA guides. Through striking images and firsthand...

An account of America's war in Europe and in the Pacific, from Pearl Harbor to the Normandy invasion, and the Japanese surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri

The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings his along his wife, son and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich. She has one affair after another, including one with the first chief of...

Discusses the political, economic, social, cultural, and technology landscape of the United States in the fifth decade of the 20th century.

Discusses the devastating effect of the 1929 stock market crash on American economy and Franklin D. Roosevelt's programs to restore the nation's financial health.

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.

Incorporating the most recent scholarship, this eighth revised edition of "Rise to Globalism" now in paperback offers a concise and informative overview of the evolution of American foreign policy from 1938 to the present. Ambrose also wrote bestsellers "Undaunted Courage" and "D-Day"

Presents 180 full-color photographs from the Library of Congress's Farm Security Administration collection, taken by FSA photographers from 1939 to 1943, creating a portrait of America as it began to emerge from the Great Depression and prepared to fightWorld War II.

Traces the rise to national prominence of Huey Long and Father Charles Coughlin during the Great Depression.