Format:
1 online resource (507 pages)
ISBN:
9780307774446
Content:
One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today. In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaine's sweeping and authoritative history of the Great Depression as one of the best and most readable studies of the era. Combining clear-eyed insight into the machinations of politicians and economists who struggled to revive the battered economy, personal stories from the average people who were hardest hit by an economic crisis beyond their control, and an evocative depiction of the popular culture of the decade, McElvaine paints an epic picture of an America brought to its knees-but also brought together by people's widely shared plight. In a new introduction, McElvaine draws striking parallels between the roots of the Great Depression and the economic meltdown that followed in the wake of the credit crisis of 2008. He also examines the resurgence of anti-regulation free market ideology, beginning in the Reagan era, and argues that some economists and politicians revised history and ignored the lessons of the Depression era.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Content:
Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Other Books by This Author -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Foreword to the First Edition -- Introduction to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition -- 1 Historical Currents and the Great Depression -- 2 Who Was Roaring in the Twenties?-Origins of the Great Depression -- 3 In the Right Place at the Wrong Time?-Herbert Hoover -- 4 Nature Takes Its Course: The First Years of the Depression -- 5 The Lord of the Manor: FDR -- 6 "And What Was Dead Was Hope": 1932 and the Interregnum -- 7 "Action, and Action Now": The Hundred Days and Beyond -- 8 "Fear Itself": Depression Life -- 9 Moral Economics: American Values and Culture in the Great Depression -- 10 Thunder on the Left: Rising Unrest, 1934-35 -- 11 "I'm That Kind of Liberal Because I'm That Kind of Conservative": The Second New Deal -- 12 New Hickory: The WPA, the Election of 1936, and the Court Fight -- 13 The CIO and the Later New Deal -- 14 "Dr. New Deal" Runs Out of Medicine: The Last Years of the Depression, 1939-41 -- 15 Perspective: The Great Depression and Modern America -- Notes.
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Additional Edition:
9780812923278
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9780812923278
Language:
English
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