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This companion volume to the public television series delves into the events and impact of the Great Depression. The text is illustrated throughout with photos, documents, and posters, many previously unpublished.


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A discerning, information-packed and emotionally charged survey of America's crucible. . . The photographs and their long, illuminating captions do a fine job of conveying America's dark night. . . . Heartfelt and wide-ranging, and timely as well, as we continue to grapple with the nurturing sort of government put in place by FDR * - Kirkus 'A fine survey. . . Watkins is at his best in his ability to recapture the miseries and the hopes, the fears and the ideals, of individual people who lived in a world that may have been physically almost unrecognizable - no interstate highways, n *
- Godfrey Hodgson, Washington Post Book World

The Great Depression

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      Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 2/4/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780316080439, 978-0316080439
      ISBN10: 0316080438
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      History of the Americas

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This companion volume to the public television series delves into the events and impact of the Great Depression. The text is illustrated throughout with photos, documents, and posters, many previously unpublished.


      Trade Review
      A discerning, information-packed and emotionally charged survey of America's crucible. . . The photographs and their long, illuminating captions do a fine job of conveying America's dark night. . . . Heartfelt and wide-ranging, and timely as well, as we continue to grapple with the nurturing sort of government put in place by FDR * - Kirkus 'A fine survey. . . Watkins is at his best in his ability to recapture the miseries and the hopes, the fears and the ideals, of individual people who lived in a world that may have been physically almost unrecognizable - no interstate highways, n *
      - Godfrey Hodgson, Washington Post Book World

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