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

Down and Out in the Great Depression is a moving, revealing collection of letters by the forgotten men, women, and children who suffered through one of the greatest periods of hardship in American history. Sifting through some 15,000 letters from government and private sources, Robert McElvaine has...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: McElvaine, Robert S., 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Edición:25th anniversary ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions
Manners and customs.
Depressions.
HISTORY.
Crises economiques > 1929 > États-Unis > Sources.
Depressions > 1929 > United States > Sources.
United States.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1933-1945 > Sources.
États-Unis > Moeurs et coutumes > 1918-1945 > Sources.
United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945 > Sources.
United States > Social life and customs > 1918-1945 > Sources.
Sources.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Down and Out in the Great Depression is a moving, revealing collection of letters by the forgotten men, women, and children who suffered through one of the greatest periods of hardship in American history. Sifting through some 15,000 letters from government and private sources, Robert McElvaine has culled nearly 200 communications that best show the problems, thoughts, and emotions of ordinary people during this time. Unlike views of Depression life "from the bottom up" that rely on recollections recorded several decades later, this book captures the daily anguish of people during the.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (280 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781469604817

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