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McDaniel, Melissa

Summary: Learn about the Great Depression, from its roots in the economic boom of the 1920s to its conclusion during World War II.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.916 MCD

Burgan, Michael.

Summary: "Describes the people and events of the Great Depression. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspectives of a Bonus Army marcher, a teenager riding the rails, and a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2011

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC YOU

Watkins, T. H. (Tom H.)

Summary: It was the worst of times and the best of times. It was an era of unprecedented crisis and a time of unprecedented courage. Now, in a single, comprehensive volume, The Hungry Years tells the story of the Great Depression through the eyes of the people who lived through it. Less concerned with the power brokers in Washington than with the daily struggles of ordinary people at the grassroots...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co. 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.916 WAT

Kasson, John F.

Summary: Her image appeared in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily; she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII as the most photographed person in the world. Her portrait brightened the homes of countless admirers: from a black laborer's cabin in South Carolina to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's recreation room in Washington, DC. A few years later her smile cheered the secret bedchamber of Anne...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TEMPLE, SHIRLEY KAS

Dickstein, Morris.

Summary: 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, photograhy, and mass entertainment ever seen in this country.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 DIC

Folsom, Burton W.

Summary: A revisionist perspective on FDR's presidency and the New Deal argues that such government programs as social security, minimum wage, and farm subsidies didn't work in the 1930s and do not work now, in a critical report that traces many modern problems to the FDR administration.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 FOL

Shlaes, Amity.

Summary: It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression--only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand it. These people are at the heart of this reinterpretation of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century. Author Shlaes presents the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how through...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 SHL

Watkins, T. H.

Summary: "The Great Depression of the 1930s turned the lives of ordinary Americans upside down, leaving an indelible mark on the nation's psyche. The Great Depression: America in the 1930s is award-winning historian T. H. Watkins's lively political, economic, and cultural account of this age of hardship and hope." "This companion volume to the public television series The Great Depression tells the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1993

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 WAT

Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier)

Summary: "Portraying the United States from the Great War to the Great Depression, The Crisis of the Old Order covers the Jazz Age and the rise and fall of the cult of business. For a season, prosperity seemed permanent, but the illusion came to an end when Wall Street crashed in October 1929. Public trust in the wisdom of business leadership crashed too. With a dramatist's eye for vivid detail and a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 SCH VOL 1

Shlaes, Amity.

Summary: Shlaes offers a reinterpretation of the Great Depression, seeking to demonstrate how the failures of Hoover and Roosevelt to understand the prosperity of the 1920s directly contributed to massive national burdens that marginalized common citizens.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.916 SHL

Shlaes, Amity.

Summary: It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression--only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand it. These people are at the heart of this reinterpretation of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century. Author Shlaes presents the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how through...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2008

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Stacks, Call number: 978 SHA

Summary: "Tells the unforgettable story of the 250,000 teenagers who left their homes and hopped freight trains during the Great Depression"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RID

Low, Ann Marie

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1984

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.4 LOW ANN MARIE, LOW

Bernstein, Harry

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERNSTEIN, HARRY BER

Schlesinger, Arthur M Jr.

Summary: "Portraying the United States from the Great War to the Great Depression, The Crisis of the Old Order covers the Jazz Age and the rise and fall of the cult of business. For a season, prosperity seemed permanent, but the illusion came to an end when Wall Street crashed in October 1929. Public trust in the wisdom of business leadership crashed too. With a dramatist's eye for vivid detail and a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 SCH VOL 2

Ziegelman, Jane

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced--the Great Depression--and how it transformed America's culinary culture. The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts in the country's political and social landscape, forever changed the way America eats. Before 1929,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 ZIE

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Summary: "Eleanor Roosevelt never wanted her husband to run for president. When he won, she . . . went on a national tour to crusade on behalf of women. She wrote a regular newspaper column. She became a champion of women's rights and of civil rights. And she decided to write a book."--Jill Lepore, from the Introduction

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books, an imprint of Perseus Books 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 ROO

Bird, Caroline.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: D. McKay Co. 1966

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.916 BIR

Love, Edmund G.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1972

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOV

Clark, Mary Higgins.

1 hold on 1 copy

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 CLARK, MARY HIGGINS CLA

Clark, Mary Higgins.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 CLARK, MARY HIGGINS CLA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 Clark

Clark, Mary Higgins.

Summary: In a memoir of growing up in the Bronx during the Depression, the author recalls her father's death in 1939, her family's financial woes, and her mother's creation of a rooming house, bringing in tenants who would change their lives.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 813.54 CLA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 CLA

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1955

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.54 GAL

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