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Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s: The Postman Always Rings Twice / They Shoot Horses, Don't ...

13 reviews
Horace McCoy, Kenneth Fearing, ...

Library of America, 1997

Thank God for the 1930's and 1940's/
First of all, the Library Of America collection provides the reader with some of the most beautiful hardcover editions available today. That said, the selections chosesn for this edition are all first class; for someone just getting into hard-boiled fiction, this is the ideal place to start. If you're like me and have been reading this genre for many years, this is a perfect volume to add to ...

Lessons from the Great Depression (Lionel Robbins Lectures)

3 reviews
Peter Temin

The MIT Press, 1991

A Compelling Study of the Great Depression: The Gold Standard is Largely to Blame
Peter Temin rigorously explains the economics of the Great Depression and the lessons to be learned from the economics of the Great Depression. He explains convincingly that the gold standard was mainly to blame for the Great Depression. It was a Federal Reserve contraction of the money supply that began a recession, and then it was the gold standard that turned it into a catastrophic depression. ...

The Great Depression: America 1929-1941

17 reviews
Robert S. Mcelvaine

Three Rivers Press, 1993

New Deal as Seen from the Reagan Era
This book was written in 1983, in the early years of Ronald Reagan's presidency. It's very interesting to see how angry the Reagan fans are at reading it. Biased! they cry, and so it is... forthrightly biased against Reagan, but intelligently skeptical toward the alleged success of Keynsian solutions to the Depression. Critics of FDR today seem widely to assume that the New Deal was strictly a ...

The Greatest Generation

477 reviews
Tom Brokaw

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2001

An inspirational portrait of America`s finest people......
Tom Brokaw has brought forth one of the most inspiring and touching accounts ever written.The Greatest Generation is a must-read for each and every American. His subjects will leave the reader feeling both admiration and gratitude for these wonderful individuals and their sacrifices for our great nation. You will be thankful for being an American when you experience this book. ...

American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work

10 reviews
Nick Taylor

Bantam, 2008

American Made
This is an excellent book and a great addition to history. I knew very little about the Worker's Progress Association until I saw the author speak about his book on Book TV. I was ignorant of the great works that the WPA did and had always had a negative view of the WPA. Since I have read the book I have talked with several people whose parents actually worked for the WPA and heard wonderful ...

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression

16 reviews
Studs Terkel

W. W. Norton & Company, 2000

gives voices to those who lived through the Depression
As a former grad student in History, I found this book fascinating. Author Studs Terkel interviews people who lived through the Depression and gets their takes on that difficult period. We hear the experiences and memories of those who lived through it from multiple points of view. The book was published in 1970 and much of the research was accordingly done during the second half of the '60s ...

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Edition 001)

188 reviews
Timothy Egan

Mariner Books, 2006

A healthy reminder of how easy we have it.
Save for the descriptions of dust and dirt, which get a little tiring, this book is a great read. His writing style is very readable and his research and understanding of the material is obvious. It is a good lesson for these times we live in. Perhaps we could use some of the wisdom of those times to understand what we need to do to cure our environmental and economic ills.

Dust to Eat: Drought and Depression in the 1930s

2 reviews
Michael L. Cooper

Clarion Books, 2004

Poignant account of Dust Bowl era
After hearing author on NPR, ordered Mr. Cooper's book and found it to be a concise and poignant account. I recommend it highly. Not a pleasant "read," but the book helped me gain new appreciation for the grit (no pun intended) of those who lived through one of the most-challenging periods of American history. Left me feeling thankful my grandparents resided outside the most affected Dust Bowl ...

The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935 (The Age of Roosevelt, Vol. 2)

2 reviews
Jr.", Arthur M. "Schlesinger

Mariner Books, 2003

Franklin Roosevelt: A Great Man
Arthur M. Schlesinger wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning series on "The Age of Roosevelt" almost a half-century ago. This volume is the middle volume of that trilogy, covering the period 1933-1935. In assessing Roosevelt's role only a generation removed from the activity itself, Schlesinger chose to utilize Plutarch's approach of evaluating the man and his character to see how history developed. ...

Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression 1920-1941 (Norton twentieth century America series)

6 reviews
Michael E. Parrish

W. W. Norton & Company, 1994

Harding to Pearl Harbor - quite an era
Anxious Decades is a volume in the Norton Twentieth Century America Series that addresses the decades of the twenties and the thirties. Michael E. Parrish has taken on the challenging task of giving us a consice volume addressing all of the societal, political, and economic trends that occured during these vastly different decades. The 1920's, known as the "roaring twenties" were indeed years ...

The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932 (The Chicago History of American Civilization)

9 reviews
William E. Leuchtenburg

University Of Chicago Press, 1993

Scandals and Speakeasies
I had to read this book for my American History Since 1877 course. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed reading this book. I thought I knew about the 1920's, and after reading this book I knew that I knew nothing at all. This book covers ever aspect of the decade and gives it more than just a name. The book covers political, economic, and social issues of the day. It explains the state of ...

Art Deco Interiors: Decoration and Design Classics of the 1920s and 1930s

12 reviews
Patricia Bayer

Thames & Hudson, 1998

The last book I'd let go of.
For those who are looking for a special purpose book, such as one that will instruct a person in design, or categorize items one may want to purchase by type (lamps, vases, statues, etc.), this may not be the ideal book. For the reader who is interested in exploring the deco spirit of original times and designers who viewed deco interiors as ensembles and not mere collections of items, this is ...

The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s

34 reviews
Piers Brendon

Vintage, 2002

Fantastic Stuff
This is one of the best books I have ever read about that period or any other period of modern history. Brendon knows how to connect countries, people, events and even fleeting vignettes with the utmost mastery. You really get a global vision about those years and the spirit that animated them. Last but not least it must be mentioned the elegance of Brendon's pen. His ability to depict leaders or ...

Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man

3 reviews

The University of North Carolina Press, 1983

Terrific Compilation Of Depression- Era Correspondance
This wonderful collection of depression-era letters from both ordinary men in the street as well as from celebrated people alike is offered by noted Depression era historian Robert McElvaine. In the opinion of most contemporary historians, the Second World War was the single most important event shaping and directing subsequent developments throughout the 20th century. Moreover, no single other ...

The Only Game in Town: Baseball Stars of the 1930s and 1940s Talk About the Game They Loved (Baseball Oral ...

12 reviews
Fay Vincent

Simon & Schuster, 2006

For all baseball fans
This is a book that any baseball fan needs to read. It makes us appreciate the game back when it was pure. When the game was truly the national pasttime, and the players such as Monte Irvin, Ralph Kiner, and so many others played a game they loved. Yes, it was a business, but it was also a game, which it's not anymore. It's a sport, no more, no less. The stories of Ted Williams, Joe ...

Art of Finger Waving -- Recreating Vintage 1920s and 1930s Hairstyles
Paul Compan

Bramcost Publications, 2007

Originally published in 1930, this rare book contains very detailed instructions and illustrations for recreating the fantastic long and short hair finger wave styles of the 1920s and 1930s. Finger waving is the shaping of the hair while wet into "s-curved" undulations using your fingers and a comb. You'll learn this technique as well as creating the three types of swirls to use based on the hair type of the wearer. The book begins with ...

Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s

13 reviews
Donald Worster

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

"Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s"
Donald Worster contends that the destruction of the southern plains was one of the most terrible ecological disasters in human history. Human beings, not nature, heaven, or hell, created this ecological tragedy. It was the result of unbridled greed and arrogance on the part of expansion driven Americans and their erroneous assumptions about soil, plants, and rain. According to Worster, the ...

Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s: The Triple Thinkers, The Wound and the Bow, ...
Edmund Wilson

Library of America, 2007

Edmund Wilson was the dominant American literary critic from the 1920s until his death in 1972, but he was also far more than that: a chronicler of his times, a historian of ideas, a probing observer of himself and of the society around him. With this volume and a companion volume devoted to the 30s and 40s--the first two entries in what will be a series devoted to Wilson's work--The Library of America pays tribute to the writer who first ...

Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939

8 reviews
Frederick L. Allen

Harper Perennial, 1986

"Since Yesterday" - seems just like today!
Frederick Lewis Allen begins this short book (346 pages) where he left off in his last book (?Only Yesterday?) - with the stock market crash of 1929 - and ends it with the advent of World War II in 1939. Allen skillfully weaves the minor events of this decade (the fads, books, crimes, machines, gadgets, personalities, movies, fashions, etc.) together with the major events (the stock market ...

Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s

13 reviews
Sheila Fitzpatrick

Oxford University Press, USA, 2000

Must read
If you have an interest in Stalin and the 1930's, which include the purges, this book is a must for you. For the most part I study the Military and Political history of the early Soviet Union and I had this book on my shelf for years before I finally decided to read it. But once I began I was amazed at myself that I had waited so long to finally dive into this book! The author has really done ...

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