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Favreau, Marc

Summary: "Marc Favreau documents the Great Depression--a time when Americans from all walks of life fell victim to poverty, insecurity, and fear--and tells the incredible story of how they survived and, ultimately, thrived. This is the story of the Great Depression in the United States, from the sweeping consequences of the market collapse to the more personal stories of individuals and communities...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.91 FAV

Summary: "A history of the Great Depression, based on primary source documents and other historical artifacts. Features include period art works and photographs; excerpts from literary works, letters, speeches, broadcasts, and diaries; summary boxes; a timeline; maps; and a list of additional resources"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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

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

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

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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

Lüsted, Marcia Amidon

Summary: Introduces the Great Depression, inviting readers to investigate its causes, offering insights into daily life and how the economics of the time shaped politics, and discussing Roosevelt's New Deal.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press, A division of Nomad Communications 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 973.917 LUS

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2002

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

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

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Indiana University Press 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 305.23 CHI

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 2012

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.916 MCD

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

Pascal, Janet B.

Summary: On October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worst. The stock market – the system that controls money in America – plunged to a record low. But this event was only the beginning of many bad years to come. By the early 1930s, one out of three people was not working. People lost their jobs, their houses, or both and ended up in shantytowns called “Hoovervilles” named for the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.91 PAS

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHA BASKET

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

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenhaven Press 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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

Graves, Kerry A.

Summary: Discusses school life during the Great Depression, including schools, lessons, books, and teachers. Addresses social and economic life during the 19e0s. Also includes activities and sidebars.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Earth Books 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 370.973 GRA

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

Doeden, Matt

Summary: "YOU are struggling to survive during the Great Depression. As a migrant worker, you travel from place to place hoping to earn enough money to get by. How will you find a way to feed and clothe yourself and your family? Step back in time to face the challenges that real people were met with during this difficult time in history"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: You Choose, an imprint of Capstone Press 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DOE

Silver, Marisa.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: In 1936, a young mother resting by the side of a road in central California is spontaneously photographed by a woman documenting the migrant laborers who have taken to America's farms in search of work. Little personal information is exchanged, and neither woman has any way of knowing that they have produced what will become the most iconic image of the Great Depression.--P. [2] of jkt.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIL

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